Detect Evil: The Reverend is certain Arlena is the focus of great evil.Clock Discrepancy: A watch worn by a witness is deliberately altered to give the murderer an alibi and allow him to stage a fake murder so that the victim appears to have been killed before she really was.Later the same day, the stepmother is murdered, and Linda believes it's her fault. Correlation/Causation Gag: Linda does some voodoo magic to kill her stepmother.

Busman's Holiday: Yet another one for Poirot.

As the Good Book Says.: This title is taken from Ecclesiastes 6:1.

On her own, she's just annoying, and Poirot has already realized that her addiction to sex/romance/drama makes her vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation, not liable to perform it on others - she's not intelligent enough. While Arlena is disruptive in the community and has personality issues, the worst of her actions are staged by the killer and his accomplice to create a narrative that Arlena was a homewrecker tempting the weak-willed Patrick away from poor helpless Christine, while in reality Patrick and Christine are working together to bait Arlena into their scheme to murder her. The 1982 film adaptation has its own trope section, while tropes for the 2001 ITV adaptation are listed on the page for the TV series. It was also adapted into a 2007 PC video game. The story has been adapted twice for the screen, firstly as a 1982 film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Peter Ustinov with an all star cast (that included James Mason, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg and Jane Birkin) and the music of Cole Porter, and secondly as a 2001 episode in the eighth series of Poirot starring David Suchet. When she is found strangled by powerful hands, were those hands male?

A novel by Agatha Christie published in 1941, featuring Hercule Poirot.Ī quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon is all that Hercule Poirot wants, but amongst his fellow guests is a beautiful and vain woman who, seemingly oblivious to her own husband, revels in the attention of another woman's husband.

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