Worked with Lucien Bex, the Commissary of Police, in Ostend in 1909. Has been working on the “Aberystwyth Case” with Inspector Japp. He mentioned the “little grey cells” once in “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” and mentions them again in this story, thus creating his much impersonated catchphrase. Is now sharing rooms with Hastings in London and has set himself up as a private detective. Having read it before, I knew roughly what was going on, but I couldn’t remember who the murderer was, in common with a contemporary review which said “the solution is one of those ‘once revealed, instantly’ forgotten.” That said, what comes before is quite entertaining, as Poirot focuses on elements that the man from the Sûreté thinks of little importance, but which ultimately lead to his triumph. Who were the mysterious men who tied up his wife before taking him out to find “the secret”? Which of the many women in his life could be involved? And is there a connection between a similar crime that happened twenty years ago? Poirot’s help is requested by Paul Renauld, who fears his life is in danger, but by the time the detective arrives in Northern France, the millionaire has been found stabbed to death in an open grave.
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