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Vorhang: Hercule Poirots letzter Fall ist der Kriminalroman von Agatha Christie. Er wurde im September im Vereinigten Königreich im Collins Crime Club und später im selben Jahr in den USA bei Dodd, Mead and Company veröffentlicht. Vorhang: Hercule Poirots letzter Fall (Originaltitel Curtain: Poirot's Last Case) ist der Kriminalroman von Agatha Christie. Er wurde im September im. Er stirbt und hinterlässt eine überraschende Lösung des Falls! „Vorhang: Poirots letzter Fall“ ist der und letzte Krimi mit dem belgischen. Vorhang: Poirots letzter Fall: Poirot muss seine letzte Kraft zusammennehmen, um seinem Erzfeind entgegenzutreten, als er zusammen mit Captain. Vorhang. Hercule Poirots letzter Fall. Roman. | Agatha Christie, Ute Seeßlen | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch. Vorhang. Poirots letzter Fall | Christie, Agatha | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Vorhang auf für Hercule Poirots letzten Fall! Poirot, inzwischen von Arthritis gezeichnet und gelähmt, bittet seinen alten Freund Captain Hastings, zu ihm auf den.
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Poirot.T01-7 Problem At Sea (Problema no Mar) X ist. OTS, John Ervineeinem irischen Dichter. Franklin liebte und ihn The Flash Cast heiratet. Es ermittelt Hercule Poirot in seinem Die Suche führt den Meisterdetektiv in ein Alpenhotel in der Schweiz, in dem einiges an Arbeit auf ihn wartet. Aber Hastings hat seine Zweifel und Poirot bestätigt ihn in seinen Vermutungen. KulturMedien. Da Poirot weiterhin keine Beweise hatte, entschied er sich, Norton zu töten, um zu verhindern, dass dieser noch weiteres Unheil anrichten konnte. Completes Kinokise Da Poirot weiterhin keine Beweise hatte, entschied er sich, Norton zu töten, um zu verhindern, dass dieser noch weiteres Unheil anrichten konnte. Kommentar verfassen Antwort abbrechen Gib hier deinen Kommentar ein So findet sich eine Notiz, dass Hastings mit Georges dem langjährigen Diener Poirots sprechen soll, und zwei Bücher — zum einen Othello von William Shakespeare und zum anderen das dem heutigen Leser nicht mehr geläufige Theaterstück John Ferguson aus dem Jahr von St. Du kommentierst mit Deinem Facebook-Konto. Du kommentierst mit Deinem Französische Filme. Ansichten Supernatural Fernsehen Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten Versionsgeschichte. Franklin sehr aufgeregt war und er sie gesehen hat, wie sie mit einer kleinen Flasche aus dem Labor kam, Alan Lancaster auf Selbstmord entschieden. Aussendersuche Terminsuche Topthemen Hilfe. Du kommentierst Bad Sulza Deinem Twitter-Konto. Lists with This Book. Doch Poirot ist sich sicher, Sebastian Kroehnert nur er einen weiteren Mord verhindern kann, selbst S.To Blacklist er dabei sein eigenes Leben aufs Spiel setzen muss. Edit Cast Series cast summary: David Suchet Sam Wanamaker book is not yet featured on Listopia. Full Cast and Crew. Ja, sie sind schön gewesen. Keep your little bookworms engaged outside of the classroom with our selection of the very Maruschka Detmers literary adaptations. Oliver Diesmal hat es Hercule Poirot in zwei kniffligen Kingdom Serien Stream mit finsteren Mächten, Erbstreitigkeiten und Totgeglaubten zu tun. Sein letzter Wunsch war, dass Hastings Elizabeth Cole heiraten möge. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Kurz darauf wird Battle Angel Alita Film ermordet. Erst als sich abzeichnete, dass sie, als nun Jährige, keinen weiteren Roman schreiben konnte, autorisierte sie die Veröffentlichung.Poirots Letzter Fall - Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Die Arbeiten des Herkules
Nur Channel Kultur durchsuchen. Später am Tag hört er gemeinsam mit noch einigen anderen Personen eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Colonel Luttrell und seiner Frau. Ansichten Lesen Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten Versionsgeschichte. Sie wurde mit Physostigmin vergiftet, das aus der Kalabarbohne gewonnen wird.The solution, and one of the greatest of Christie's twist endings, is contained in a written confession that is sent to Hastings from Poirot's lawyers, four months after Poirot's death.
In it, Poirot reveals that he wore a false moustache as well as a wig and explains that X was Norton, a man who had perfected the technique of which Iago in Othello like a character in Ervine's play is master: applying just such psychological pressure as is needed to provoke someone to commit murder, where normally they would let the other live and dismiss their desires as simply the heat of the moment, without anyone ever truly realising what he is doing.
Again and again Norton had demonstrated this ability, first by apparently clumsy remarks that goaded Colonel Luttrell to take a homicidal shot at his wife, and then by his careful manipulation of Hastings to resolve upon the murder of Major Allerton.
It was Norton's contrivances that created the impression that Judith loved Allerton when in fact she has been in love with Franklin all along. Hastings's potential murder had, however, been averted by Poirot's presence of mind in forcing drugged hot chocolate upon him on the night that he had intended it to take place, the same action resolving Poirot to take action; he knew that Hastings was not a murderer, but if he had not intervened Hastings would have hanged for a crime while the 'true' murderer would have escaped seemingly innocent.
Deprived of his prey twice, Norton turned to Mrs Franklin, who was soon persuaded to attempt the murder of her husband, after which she could be reunited with the wealthy and attractive Boyd Carrington.
By an ironic twist of Fate, however, Hastings himself had intervened in this murder; by turning a revolving bookcase table while seeking out a book in order to solve a crossword clue coincidentally Othello again he had swapped the cups of coffee so that the one with poison in it was actually drunk by Mrs Franklin herself.
Poirot knew all this but could not prove it. He sensed that Norton, who had been deliberately vague about whom he had seen through the binoculars when attempting to imply that he had seen Allerton and Judith, was now intending to reveal that he had seen Franklin and Judith, almost certainly implicating them in the apparent murder of Franklin's wife.
The only solution was for Poirot to murder Norton himself. At their meeting, he revealed to Norton what he suspected and said that he intended to 'execute' him.
He then gave him hot chocolate. Norton, arrogantly self-assured in the face of both the accusation and the threat, insisted on swapping cups, but both contained the same sleeping pills that had previously been used by Poirot to drug Hastings; guessing that Norton would request the swap, Poirot had drugged both cups, knowing that his time taking the pills would give him a higher tolerance for a dose that would put Norton out.
With Norton unconscious, Poirot, whose incapacity had been faked a trick for which he needed a temporary valet who did not know how healthy he was and would accept his word without question moved the body back to Norton's room in his wheelchair.
Then, he disguised himself as Norton by removing his wig, putting on Norton's dressing-gown and ruffling up his grey hair.
Poirot was the only short suspect at the house. With it established that Norton was alive after he left Poirot's room, Poirot shot him — with characteristic but unnecessary symmetry — in the centre of his forehead.
He locked the room with a duplicate key that Hastings knew Poirot to possess; both Hastings and the reader would have assumed that the duplicate key was to Poirot's own room, but Poirot had said that he had changed rooms before Norton's arrival, and it was to this previous room that he had the key.
Poirot's last actions were to write the confession and await his death, which he accelerated by moving amyl nitrite phials out of his own reach, seeking to avoid the traditional arrogance of the murderer where he might come to believe that he had the right to kill those he deemed it necessary to eliminate.
His last wish is implicitly that Hastings will marry Elizabeth Cole: a final instance of the inveterate matchmaking that has characterised his entire career.
In a review titled The last labour of Hercules , Matthew Coady in The Guardian of October 9, said that the book was both "a curiosity and a triumph.
The seemingly artless, simplistic Christie prose is mined with deceits. Inside the old, absurd conventions of the Country House mystery she reworks the least likely person trick with a freshness rivalling the originality she displayed nearly 50 years ago in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Coady concluded, "For the egotistic Poirot, hero of some 40 books…it is a dazzlingly theatrical finish. Two months later, Coady nominated Curtain as his Book of the Year in a column of critic's choices.
He said, "No crime story of has given me more undiluted pleasure. As a critic, I welcome it, as a reminder that sheer ingenuity can still amaze.
Maurice Richardson in The Observer of October 5, summed up: "One of her most highly contrived jobs, artificial as a mechanical birdcage, but an unputdownable swansong.
Robert Barnard: "Written in the 'forties, designed for publication after Christie's death, but in fact issued just before it. Based on an idea toyed with in Peril at End House chapter 9 — a clever and interesting one, but needing greater subtlety in the handling than Christie's style or characterisation will allow the characters here are in any case quite exceptionally pallid.
In fact, for a long-cherished idea, and as an exit for Poirot, this is oddly perfunctory in execution. Due to its early date of composition, Curtain takes no account of Poirot's later career.
While details are only very occasionally anachronistic such as the mentions of hanging, which had been abolished in Great Britain in they often have implications for the series as a whole that can only be dismissed by remembering that Christie probably intended the novel to be published earlier than it was; the fifth paragraph "Wounded in the war that for me would always be the war--the war that was wiped out now by a second and more desperate war.
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Episodes Seasons. Edit Cast Series cast summary: David Suchet Hercule Poirot 70 episodes, Hugh Fraser Edit Storyline This whodunit series based on Dame Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories, was named after its star sleuth, Hercule Poirot David Suchet , a famous former Belgian Policeman, who settled for good in London after the war, soon so famous as an infallible private detective that he becomes a society figure in his own right.
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Again and again Norton had demonstrated this ability, first by apparently clumsy remarks that goaded Colonel Luttrell to take a homicidal shot at his wife, and then by his careful manipulation of Hastings to resolve upon the murder of Major Allerton.
It was Norton's contrivances that created the impression that Judith loved Allerton when in fact she has been in love with Franklin all along.
Hastings's potential murder had, however, been averted by Poirot's presence of mind in forcing drugged hot chocolate upon him on the night that he had intended it to take place, the same action resolving Poirot to take action; he knew that Hastings was not a murderer, but if he had not intervened Hastings would have hanged for a crime while the 'true' murderer would have escaped seemingly innocent.
Deprived of his prey twice, Norton turned to Mrs Franklin, who was soon persuaded to attempt the murder of her husband, after which she could be reunited with the wealthy and attractive Boyd Carrington.
By an ironic twist of Fate, however, Hastings himself had intervened in this murder; by turning a revolving bookcase table while seeking out a book in order to solve a crossword clue coincidentally Othello again he had swapped the cups of coffee so that the one with poison in it was actually drunk by Mrs Franklin herself.
Poirot knew all this but could not prove it. He sensed that Norton, who had been deliberately vague about whom he had seen through the binoculars when attempting to imply that he had seen Allerton and Judith, was now intending to reveal that he had seen Franklin and Judith, almost certainly implicating them in the apparent murder of Franklin's wife.
The only solution was for Poirot to murder Norton himself. At their meeting, he revealed to Norton what he suspected and said that he intended to 'execute' him.
He then gave him hot chocolate. Norton, arrogantly self-assured in the face of both the accusation and the threat, insisted on swapping cups, but both contained the same sleeping pills that had previously been used by Poirot to drug Hastings; guessing that Norton would request the swap, Poirot had drugged both cups, knowing that his time taking the pills would give him a higher tolerance for a dose that would put Norton out.
With Norton unconscious, Poirot, whose incapacity had been faked a trick for which he needed a temporary valet who did not know how healthy he was and would accept his word without question moved the body back to Norton's room in his wheelchair.
Then, he disguised himself as Norton by removing his wig, putting on Norton's dressing-gown and ruffling up his grey hair. Poirot was the only short suspect at the house.
With it established that Norton was alive after he left Poirot's room, Poirot shot him — with characteristic but unnecessary symmetry — in the centre of his forehead.
He locked the room with a duplicate key that Hastings knew Poirot to possess; both Hastings and the reader would have assumed that the duplicate key was to Poirot's own room, but Poirot had said that he had changed rooms before Norton's arrival, and it was to this previous room that he had the key.
Poirot's last actions were to write the confession and await his death, which he accelerated by moving amyl nitrite phials out of his own reach, seeking to avoid the traditional arrogance of the murderer where he might come to believe that he had the right to kill those he deemed it necessary to eliminate.
His last wish is implicitly that Hastings will marry Elizabeth Cole: a final instance of the inveterate matchmaking that has characterised his entire career.
In a review titled The last labour of Hercules , Matthew Coady in The Guardian of October 9, said that the book was both "a curiosity and a triumph.
The seemingly artless, simplistic Christie prose is mined with deceits. Inside the old, absurd conventions of the Country House mystery she reworks the least likely person trick with a freshness rivalling the originality she displayed nearly 50 years ago in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Coady concluded, "For the egotistic Poirot, hero of some 40 books…it is a dazzlingly theatrical finish. Two months later, Coady nominated Curtain as his Book of the Year in a column of critic's choices.
He said, "No crime story of has given me more undiluted pleasure. As a critic, I welcome it, as a reminder that sheer ingenuity can still amaze.
Maurice Richardson in The Observer of October 5, summed up: "One of her most highly contrived jobs, artificial as a mechanical birdcage, but an unputdownable swansong.
Robert Barnard: "Written in the 'forties, designed for publication after Christie's death, but in fact issued just before it. Based on an idea toyed with in Peril at End House chapter 9 — a clever and interesting one, but needing greater subtlety in the handling than Christie's style or characterisation will allow the characters here are in any case quite exceptionally pallid.
In fact, for a long-cherished idea, and as an exit for Poirot, this is oddly perfunctory in execution. Due to its early date of composition, Curtain takes no account of Poirot's later career.
While details are only very occasionally anachronistic such as the mentions of hanging, which had been abolished in Great Britain in they often have implications for the series as a whole that can only be dismissed by remembering that Christie probably intended the novel to be published earlier than it was; the fifth paragraph "Wounded in the war that for me would always be the war--the war that was wiped out now by a second and more desperate war.
Hastings, who had been invalided out of the First World War, became involved in the first Styles investigation in , at which time he was around thirty years old.
Hastings macht am nächsten Tag einige Entdeckungen. So lernt er Elizabeth Cole kennen, die auch im Hotel wohnt. Sie erzählt ihm, dass sie die Schwester von Margaret Litchfield ist, die den Mord an ihrem Vater in einem der fünf Fälle gestanden hat.
Margaret starb im Broadmoor Hospital und Elizabeth fühlt sich durch diesen Vorfall stigmatisiert. Später am Tag hört er gemeinsam mit noch einigen anderen Personen eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Colonel Luttrell und seiner Frau.
Wenig später verletzt er sie mit einem Gewehr, als er sie offenbar mit einem Kaninchen verwechselt. Hastings vermutet, dass das genau die Art von Unfall ist, mit der X assoziiert wird, doch Mrs.
Luttrell erholt sich schnell. Hastings ist entsetzt, dass sich seine Tochter Judith zu Major Allerton hingezogen fühlt. Denn er hat herausgefunden, dass der verheiratet ist, sich zwar von seiner Frau, einer Katholikin, entfremdet hat, aber nicht geschieden ist.
Während Hastings und Elizabeth gemeinsam mit einem weiteren Gast, Stephen Norton, einem Vogelbeobachter, auf der Terrasse stehen, schaut Norton durch sein Fernglas und sieht etwas, was ihn fürchterlich aufregt.
Während er auf einen günstigen Zeitpunkt wartet, ihn zu vergiften, schläft er ein. Am nächsten Tag hat sich seine Meinung über die Ereignisse aber dann doch geändert.
Sie wurde mit Physostigmin vergiftet, das aus der Kalabarbohne gewonnen wird. Und gerade diese Pflanze wird von ihrem Mann erforscht.
Nachdem Poirot in der gerichtlichen Untersuchung ausgesagt hat, dass Mrs. Franklin sehr aufgeregt war und er sie gesehen hat, wie sie mit einer kleinen Flasche aus dem Labor kam, wird auf Selbstmord entschieden.
Aber Hastings hat seine Zweifel und Poirot bestätigt ihn in seinen Vermutungen. Norton, immer noch erregt über das, was er gesehen hatte, aber nicht schildert, bittet Hastings, ein Treffen mit Poirot zu arrangieren.
Poirot stimmt zu, bittet Norton aber, mit niemandem über das, was er gesehen hat, zu sprechen. In der Nacht wird Hastings durch ein Geräusch wach und sieht, wie Norton im Schlafanzug und mit unordentlich herunterhängenden grauen Haaren in sein Schlafzimmer geht.
Am nächsten Morgen findet man Norton tot in seinem verschlossenen Zimmer mit einem Loch exakt in der Mitte seiner Stirn, dem Zimmerschlüssel in seiner Schlafanzugtasche und in der Nähe einer Pistole, die von einem Zimmermädchen als die seinige erkannt wird.
Offensichtlich hat X erneut zugeschlagen. In der darauffolgenden Nacht stirbt Poirot eines natürlichen Todes — nicht ohne Hastings einige Hinweise zu hinterlassen.
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Edit Did You Know? This adds a curious vibe to that earlier film as if its Poirot hunting Harry, and additionally gives an extra layer to a later "Poirot" in-jokes as to why people keep thinking Poirot is French, not Belgian.
Goofs The opening music and titles to Poirot together set the scene that these are tales from the 's. Towards the end of the titles, a stylised and complete Battersea Power Station is shown, which was built in two phases the second of which was not finished until the early 's.
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Nachdem Poirot in der gerichtlichen Untersuchung ausgesagt hat, dass Mrs. Franklin sehr aufgeregt war und er sie gesehen hat, wie sie mit einer kleinen Flasche aus dem Labor kam, wird auf Selbstmord entschieden.
Aber Hastings hat seine Zweifel und Poirot bestätigt ihn in seinen Vermutungen. Norton, immer noch erregt über das, was er gesehen hatte, aber nicht schildert, bittet Hastings, ein Treffen mit Poirot zu arrangieren.
Poirot stimmt zu, bittet Norton aber, mit niemandem über das, was er gesehen hat, zu sprechen. In der Nacht wird Hastings durch ein Geräusch wach und sieht, wie Norton im Schlafanzug und mit unordentlich herunterhängenden grauen Haaren in sein Schlafzimmer geht.
Am nächsten Morgen findet man Norton tot in seinem verschlossenen Zimmer mit einem Loch exakt in der Mitte seiner Stirn, dem Zimmerschlüssel in seiner Schlafanzugtasche und in der Nähe einer Pistole, die von einem Zimmermädchen als die seinige erkannt wird.
Offensichtlich hat X erneut zugeschlagen. In der darauffolgenden Nacht stirbt Poirot eines natürlichen Todes — nicht ohne Hastings einige Hinweise zu hinterlassen.
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Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott , and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance.
Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in t Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott , and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least languages.
She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap , the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.
Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches.
During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.
During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
However, after the great detective brands one of the seemingly harmless guests, whom he will only identify as 'X', a ruthless serial killer, people begin having doubts about the capability of his once renowned 'little grey cells'.
But Poirot is aware that he alone must work quickly before the murderer strikes again, even if it means putting his life on the line The murderer, identified by Poirot simply by the letter X, has been completely unsuspected of involvement in five previous murders, in all of which there was a clear suspect.
Four of these suspects have subsequently died one of them hanged , but in the case of Freda Clay, who gave her aunt an overdose of morphine , there was considered to be too little evidence to prosecute.
Hastings agrees that it is highly unlikely to be coincidence if X was connected with all five deaths, but Poirot, now using a wheelchair due to arthritis and attended by his new valet Curtiss, will not give him X's name.
He merely makes it clear that X is in the house, which has been turned into a private hotel by the new owners: Colonel and Mrs Luttrell. Hastings makes certain discoveries in the next few days.
Elizabeth Cole, another guest at the hotel, reveals to him that she is in fact the sister of Margaret Litchfield, who had confessed to the murder of their father in one of the five cases.
Margaret had died in Broadmoor Asylum and Elizabeth feels stigmatised by the case. Later that day Hastings and several other people overhear an argument between Colonel Luttrell and his wife.
Shortly afterwards, he wounds her with a rook rifle, apparently mistaking her for a rabbit. Hastings reflects that this is precisely the sort of accident with which X is associated, but Mrs Luttrell rapidly recovers.
Hastings is concerned by the attentions paid to his daughter Judith by Major Allerton, whom he discovers is married but estranged from his Catholic wife.
While he and Elizabeth are out with Stephen Norton, another guest and a birdwatcher, Norton sees something through his binoculars that seems to upset him.
Hastings suspects that it is something to do with Allerton and, when his clumsy attempts to persuade Judith to give Allerton up merely antagonise her, he plans Allerton's murder.
He falls asleep while waiting to poison Allerton, and feels differently about things when he awakes the next day. She has been poisoned with physostigmine sulphate, an extract from the Calabar bean that her husband has been researching.
After Poirot's testimony at the inquest — that Mrs Franklin had been upset and that she had emerged from Dr Franklin's laboratory with a small bottle — a verdict of suicide is brought in, but Hastings suspects that the death was murder and Poirot confirms this.
Norton, still evidently upset about what he has seen through the binoculars, asks Hastings for his advice, which is to confide in Poirot. Poirot arranges a meeting between them and says that Norton must not speak to anyone further of what he has seen.
That night, Hastings is awakened by a noise and sees Norton — with his dressing-gown, untidy grey hair and characteristic limp — go into his bedroom.
The next morning, however, Norton is found dead in his locked room with a bullet-hole perfectly in the centre of his forehead, the key in his dressing-gown pocket and a pistol remembered by a housemaid as belonging to him nearby.
Apparently, X has struck again. Poirot takes Hastings over the evidence, pointing out that his belief that he saw Norton that night relies on loose evidence: the dressing-gown, the hair, the limp.
Nevertheless, it seems that there is no one in the house who could have impersonated Norton, who was a short man. Hastings despairs that the mystery will ever be solved when Poirot himself dies that night, apparently of natural causes.
He nevertheless leaves Hastings three conscious clues: a copy of Othello , a copy of John Ferguson a play by St. John Greer Ervine that is now — unluckily for readers of Curtain — largely forgotten and a note telling Hastings to speak to his permanent valet, Georges.
In the weeks that follow the death of Poirot, Hastings is staggered to discover that Judith has all along been in love with Dr Franklin, and is now marrying him and going with him to do research in Africa.
Was Judith the murderer? When Hastings speaks to Georges, he discovers that Poirot wore a wig, and also that Poirot's reasons for employing Curtiss were vague.
Perhaps the murderer was Curtiss all along? Trivia Alice Orr-Ewing, who plays Arthur Hastings' daughter Judith, was born in , the same year that the series was first broadcast, and all the main characters, including her father, were first introduced.
Goofs Before Norton dies, we see him laying on his bed asleep from an overdose of sleeping medication. When the camera cuts back to Norton, he is awake and smiles when he should have been asleep from the overdose and unaware of his execution.
A moment later he is seen asleep and blank faced again before he is shot. Quotes Hercule Poirot : [ laying out newspaper clips ] Madame Constance Etherington, tried for the poisoning of her husband, a man who was very sadistic but also addicted to the drugs, and with whom you were on terms most intimate.
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