John Moffatt portrays the great Belgian detective in a great radio adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel. Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are very distant cousins happily engaged to be married when they receive an anonymous letter claiming that someone is "sucking up" to their wealthy aunt Laura. Elinor immediately suspects Mary Gerrard, the lodgekeeper's daughter, to whom their aunt has grown quite fond of. Elinor and Roddy expecting to inherit a tidy fortune from their aunt decide it would be in everyone's best interests to visit her. Soon after their visit tragedy strikes, Mary is dead and Elinor is on trial for her life. It's up to Poirot to save this young woman from the gallows.
From the BBC:
Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are the model English couple, perfect companions set for a life of ease when they inherit Aunt Laura's considerable fortune. But a poison pen letter begins a chain of events which is to end in tragedy...Enter Hercule Poirot to investigate. John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.
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