At a village fête, Poirot runs into an old friend, John Harrison and his fiancé Molly Deane, a fashion model. Harrison invites Poirot and Hastings to tea the following week where Poirot learns that Molly had once been engaged to a local artist, Claude Langton. Poirot is puzzled by a number of apparently unrelated incidents but concludes that someone is being untruthful and that a murder is being planned. Courtesy of Hastings' new hobby, photography, Poirot knows exactly what is going to occur.
Amelia Barrowby is in fear for her life, fearing someone in her home will kill her. When she sees Poirot at a flower show where he is receiving an award, she speaks to him for a moment, giving him a packet of flower seeds. When he arrives back at his office, he discovers the seed packet is empty, and a letter from Mrs. Barrowby arrived in the morning post, which he did not receive on time. He follows up on the letter the next morning, but discovers he is too late--Mrs. Barrowby is dead, poisoned with strychnine. Mrs. Barrowby's will leaves everything to her Russian nurse, who is suspected of the poisoning, both by inspector Japp and Mrs. Barrowby's live-in niece and her niece's drunkard husband. But did the nurse commit the murder, and if so, why?
簡介:<p> 波洛(大衛·蘇切 David Suchet 飾)在拍賣會上看中了一面非常精美的鏡子,哪知道這面鏡子卻被名為杰維斯的藝術品經銷商給高價買走了,不僅如此,杰維斯還聘請了波洛到他的府上,去調查他手底下的一名建筑設計師。<br/> 杰維斯太太(艾瑪·菲爾丁 Emma Fielding 飾)是一個神神叨叨的女人,她堅信丈夫買回家的鏡子上禁錮了邪惡的力量,會有人因為這面鏡子而喪生。讓大家沒有想到的是,杰維斯太太的預言很快就得到了應驗,當晚,杰維斯先生被人發現死在了書房里,房間里的一切線索都顯示杰維斯先生是自殺,但聰敏的波洛很快就從中發現了疑點。</p>