The Cornish Mystery 1990

     Hercule Poirot receives a visit from Alice Pengelley in London.  She tells him that she thinks her dentist husband is putting poison in her food?  The next day, Poirot and Captain Hastings arrive in Cornwall to investigate the charges.  They are too late and Mrs. Pengelley has just passed away? Alice's doctor is the local general practitioner Dr. Adams.  Poirot and Hastings visit Doctor Adams and he believes Alice was suffering from gastritis?  Alice thought her husband Edward was having an affair with his pretty receptionist and her death would allow them to marry?  Alice has no other relatives in Cornwall other than her niece and the fiancé of her niece.  Inspector Japp believes this is a simple open and shut case and he thinks Edward Pengelley will soon have the hangman’s noose around his neck!!  Hercule believes someone was giving Alice poison but not her husband??

     I liked this story!!  In the beginning, all the clues point to Edward Pengelley.  He definitely is infatuated with his assistant!!  She must really be a hussy!!  This adds up and 2+2 means he must have killed her??  Even Inspector Japp believes Pengelley is guilty.  But wait??  Are we jumping to conclusions??  3 ½* (I liked this movie) 

      

50 min TV program, Crime directed by Edward Bennett with David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Chloe Salaman, John Bowler, Jerome Willis, Amanda Walker, Tilly Voxburgh, Derek Benfield, Laura Girling, John Rowe, Hugh Munro, graham Callan, Edwina Day.  

Note:  The book by Agatha Christie has 3.61* out of 5* with 196 ratings on Godreads, Imdb 7.7 out of 10, Amazon 4.9* out of 5* with 578 reviews

Special Note:  Filmed in High Street Dunster, Somerset and Twickenham Studios, London, England, UK.  The village is not filmed in Cornish but it is Dunster in Somerset.  In the final few scenes, Inspector Japp is standing under the eaves of the Dunster Yarn Market and Dunster Castle is visible in the background.  There is also a mistake in this film.  The train going to and from Polarwith Station consists of British Rail Mark 1 carriages and these were first introduced in 1951.  The setting of the story is in the 1930’s.