Poirot Bk3: Poirot Investigates (10/11)

The Adventure of the Italian Noblemen

Murdered:
Court Foscatini-> made a phone call to Dr Hawker and said that he had been killed. Dr Hawker, Poirot and Hasting rushed to Court Foscatini's apartment and found him dead.
-> was dealt with a terrible blow on the head by a marble statue
-> hand was grasping the telephone.
-> (On Mr Graves' account) was expected to have dinner with 2 other Italian men.
-> The murder time was speculated at 8:47pm. The autopsy of the body, the stopped clock and the phonecall timing were consistent.

Court Foscatini's dinning table:
-> a dish of fruit, but the 3 dessert playes were untouched.
-> 3 Coffee cups with remains of very black coffee in them
-> a box containing cigars and cigarettes stood on the table

Suspects:
1) Signor Ascanio and a young man-> Signor Ascanio is a Man of forty. Both were dinning with Court Foscatini.
- (On Mr Graves' account, Court Foscatini was going to settle the dispute among them, on the evening dinner of the day of murder.)
- No one saw them entering or leaving the hotel other than Mr Graves
- denied of having met Court Foscatini on the day he died
- had given Court Foscatini a large sum of money in exchange of the documents incriminating papers of a great man in Italy.
2) Mr Graves-> Court Foscatini's assistant
- had left Court Foscatini's room at about 8.30pm to meet a friend for a music concert in Edgware Road.

Curious:
- (On Signor's account, Foscatini was not a court, his name did not appear in the Almanach de Gotha.

Curious:
- Can a guy being stone on the head, on the verge of dying, could make a phone call?

Leads:
- Court Foscatini did not have coffee stained teeth.