The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

Season 3, Episode 7, Aired

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Poirot is called in to help a woman who lives in fear of her husband, and he is invited to a dinner party which goes horribly wrong. Then Colonel Curtiss, the scar-faced prime murder suspect, even unwisely calls Poirot "a detective." The detective finds that the murder mystery hinges on a duel fought ten years before. He soon proves Curtiss to be the killer who pushed a stiletto blade into a trunk, straight into the head of a man hiding in the trunk. As the police take the Colonel away, he adds insult to injury by sneering at "that bloody little Frog"... but it was by getting such details wrong that he got himself caught.moreless
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      • Do not go out of the room during The Mystery of the Spanish Chest - you may miss the remarkable sight of Poirot dancing the Charleston!

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      • This episode is based on Agatha Christie's short story The Mystery of the Spanish Chest. This was expanded in the 1950s from an earlier and shorter story called The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest, which was first published in The Sketch magazine in January, 1932. It was later included in the collection The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939).

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