Poirot Bk : Double Sin and other stories (8/8)

Marple: Sanctuary

victim:

A 45 year old dying man mentioned the word 'Sanctuary' while he was lying on the floor in the church. He could have also mentioned about Julian. He was shot. His possessions consisted of an old watch with initials 'W.S', a wallet and a return trip ticket. He was being identified as Sandbourne by Mr & Mrs Eccles as their brother.

Suspects:

1) Mr & Mrs Eccles

-tried to get the dead man's coat as it was sentimental to Mrs Eccles

-claimed that Sandbourne went out with a pistol and shot himself

Leads:

The dead man happened to be Walter St John

-charged with thieving of jewelery

-came back to get jewellery for his daughter, Jewel

Poirot Bk : Double Sin and other stories (7/8)

Hercule Poirot: The Last Seance

Seance-> a meeting whereby people want to come into contact with dead people and spirits.

Victim:

Simone, the practitioner of medium who grew tired performing seance

-a graceful women

-she had managed to bring back alive the dead boy of Madam Eve after performing the last seance

-was ill, shrunken to half of her size and was found dead later after a fall

-A thud of a body falling was heard

-suspected to be a homicide case

Suspects:

1) Raoul Daubreuil, a good looking young Frenchman and an engineer

-was once the husband of Madam Eve

-cried for Simone when she died

2) Elise, medium assistant

-was in due respect of Madam Eve and love

-believed that Madam Eve was a kind person who never cheat on anyone

3) Madam Eve,

- was once a wife of Raoul

- came late when the body was discovered

- spare no concern of the medium Simone who died bringing her son back to life

Poirot Bk : Double Sin and other stories (6/8)

Hercule Poirot: Double Sin


Mystery:
Mr Hardman's jewellery was stolen from his safe.
It was the emerald necklance which belonged to Catherineide Medici.

Suspects:
1) Mr Johnston, south African millionaire
-was the last to leave the room.

->The three people who returned to this room during afternoon
2) Countess Vera Rossakoff, charming Russian lady
-her intense gazing at Mr Hardman's cabinet, surprised Mr Hardman
3) Mr Bernard Parker, middleman
-fetched some miniatures to Mr Hardman to show to lady Runcorn
-tried to deny his gloves & cigarette case
4) Lady Runcorn
-devoted most of her time to charity committee
-had returned to fetch a handbag
-was believed to have kleptomaniac; cannot control the desire to steal

Double Clue:
-Parker's glove
-cigarette case with initials: 'P' & 'B'.
-both clues are pointing at BernardParker

Curious:
-countess would sell her own jewel & give Mr Hardman money to clear Mr Parker's name.

Leads:
Russian Alphabet: B is V & P is R.

Poirot Bk : Double Sin and other stories (3/5)

Theft of the Royal Ruby

Mystery: The prince Farouq of Egypt foolishly gave a royal ruby necklace to a seductive lady to wear, but she simply walked away with it. Thus the prince hired Poirot to retrieve the Ruby. Poirot went to the Colonel Lacey's house to search for the ruby. The night before the eating of pudding, Poirot found a warning message. 'Don't eat none of the plum pudding.' The pudding was distributed to everyone and everyone, who ate the pudding, were fine. The family made a Christmas pudding and a New Year pudding. The Christmas pudding was knocked by the children and the New Year pudding was served instead. Colonel Lacey found a ruby in the New year pudding.

Suspects:
1) Desmond Lee-Wortley-> One of the house guest. He helped the family in making the pudding.
2) Colonel Lacy-> A famous Egyptologist, one of the few who knows the royal ruby is here with the Prince of Egypt in England. He was caught in financial difficulties.

Poirot Bk : Double Sin and other stories (2/5)

Wasp's Nest

Mystery- Poirot can foresee a murder which is going to take place.

Victim:
Harrison, an author and also a friend of Poirot
-> Usually looks grim and carries a uncomfortable smile.
-> Engaged to Molly Deane who was Claude Langton's ex-girlfriend
-> Is a good friend to Claude Langton
-> Could have drunk a cup of tea, added with potassium cyanide which was mearnt to destroy the wasp's nest in Harrison's house.

Suspects:

Claude Langton
-> bought potassium cyanide for destroying wasp's nest.
-> Kind person, is helping Harrison in destroying the wasp's nest.
-> Admitted that he is still in love with Molly
-> Fails to destroy the wasp's nest after a few attempts using petrol

Leads:
-> Harrison is visiting a doctor and is likely to suffer from illness.
-> Harrison is later found with poor health and has only a month or two left.
-> Molly Deane is back with Claude Langton
-> (On Langton's account)- He bought the cyanide at Harrison's request
-> Harrison preferred the use of petrol to cyanide to destroy the wasp's nest as cyanide was seen to be dangerous.