

Sainsbury Seale (of the shoe buckles) disappears, causing everyone (probably except Poirot b/c he's ten steps ahead) to wonder if her disappearance is linked to the deaths of the dentist and the other dude, Mr. M killed himself because he realized he had poisoned his patient. Morel's office that day turns up dead at his hotel of apparent novocaine/adrenaline poisoning, and Japp again decides for sure Dr. A few days later, one of the other folks who visited Dr. Poirot digs a bit further because he just doesn't buy it, and something feels weird. M was murdered, while Japp (typically) takes everything at face value and assumes it is suicide. Blunt, being a bigtime financier and conservative has, depending on who you ask, protected England from the volatile political forces sweeping through other countries by keeping the nation on firm financial footing OR acted as a fuddy-duddy impediment to progress with his old-school conservative financial ideas #feeltheBern.Īnyhow, Poirot is totally convinced Dr. M was offed, and they're afraid it might have been an attempt on his life.

important British banking man, Alistair Blunt, had an appointment shortly before Dr. Morel has been shot dead in his office (suicide, maybe?)! The reason Scotland Yard is involved rather than just the local bobbies is that a v.

Just a few hours after Poirot goes home, our old pal Inspector Japp comes a'calling for him because Dr. As Poirot is leaving, this lady knocks one of the buckles off her shoe on a car door and Poirot picks it up for her (while judging her for her totally not chic footwear). Raikes), a military man with fabulous mustaches #Poirotmancrush #probably (Colonel Abercrombie), and a shabby, artsy looking lady with fugly buckled shoes (Ms. On this day, Poirot has his regular 6-month dentist appointment and interacts with some other patrons of the establishment as he waits for and then leaves his appointment, including a super scowly but attractive young man (Mr. Morel is complaining to his sister that his assistant is out because her aunt had a stroke (#howdareshe) and that he thinks she's lying about it just to go hook up with her boyfriend of whom Dr. So this one begins in everyone's favorite locale, the dentist's office. He had left out one name." - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, p. Then his eyebrows shot up as he realized that the list was incomplete.

Within that circle of persons was the hand that had actually done the deed - no matter whose the inspiration had been. He felt satisfied that they were as he had stated them. "Hercule Poirot remained sipping his chocolate and going over the facts as he had just outlined.
