Closed Casket: the New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mystery 2)
“I foolishly assumed that we would first walk to the river, only to discover that this was not what he had in mind. A motorcar would take us to the bank of the Argideen, Hatton had already arranged it, and we would be there within the hour.
In due course a driver presented himself and we set off. As we drove the long way round, circling away from the house at first and going in what I maintained was the wrong direction, given that we could have walked a straight line from Lady Playford’s front d...oor to the river, I said to Poirot, ‘Joseph Scotcher’s murder cannot have been anything to do with the new will. That was only announced at dinner. Surely the poison must have been put into his medicine bottle before dinner.’ ‘The strychnine was not necessarily in his medicine, mon ami. It might have been in his mutton soup. We do not know.’ ‘Even if it was, we ate the soup before Lady Playford told us her news. The motive must have been something else. Unless the murderer is Gathercole or Lady Playford.MoreLess
In due course a driver presented himself and we set off. As we drove the long way round, circling away from the house at first and going in what I maintained was the wrong direction, given that we could have walked a straight line from Lady Playford’s front d...oor to the river, I said to Poirot, ‘Joseph Scotcher’s murder cannot have been anything to do with the new will. That was only announced at dinner. Surely the poison must have been put into his medicine bottle before dinner.’ ‘The strychnine was not necessarily in his medicine, mon ami. It might have been in his mutton soup. We do not know.’ ‘Even if it was, we ate the soup before Lady Playford told us her news. The motive must have been something else. Unless the murderer is Gathercole or Lady Playford.MoreLess
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