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s issue of 5 May 1940 when he said, "Miss
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as a detective rather than Poirot and the "bafflement" that his cases brought. The reviewer then committed the cardinal sin of identifying the murderer in his somewhat ironically-written final paragraph when he said, "There can be no harm in divulging that this play's apparent heroine is really its
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Ridley changed the name of two of the characters from the novel. Freddie Rice was renamed
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2693:Miss Marple
2539:Video games
2488:(2004–2005)
2454:Wasp's Nest
1979:Sad Cypress
1665:(2022 film)
1657:(2020 film)
1649:(2019 film)
1641:(2018 film)
1617:(1979 film)
1541:Other books
1503:Wasp's Nest
1219:collections
879:Sad Cypress
654:Parker Pyne
593:Adaptations
458:– Mrs Croft
456:May Hallatt
393:(1931) and
323:Isabel Dean
296:Ian Fleming
2732:1940 plays
2726:Categories
2446:Television
2404:soundtrack
2075:Third Girl
2067:The Clocks
2011:The Hollow
1810:Miss Lemon
1780:Characters
1601:Depictions
1493:Radio and
1413:The Hollow
1207:The Burden
1164:Westmacott
1089:Third Girl
1068:The Clocks
949:The Hollow
602:Characters
472:References
246:"A.D." in
227:Ivor Brown
220:syllogisms
117:Background
110:Dad's Army
93:1932 novel
59:1940-04-01
26:Written by
1817:Recurring
673:Locations
362:shillings
211:The Times
205:Reception
2711:Category
2681:See also
2469:episodes
1727:Category
1483:Chimneys
1476:Akhnaton
1162:As Mary
588:Universe
387:(1931),
157:Cornwall
36:Based on
2400:(2023)
2099:Curtain
1673:Related
1448:Verdict
1145:Curtain
1124:Nemesis
900:N or M?
240:The Bat
192:ACT III
80:English
57: (
2638:(2023)
2630:(2023)
2622:(2021)
2614:(2016)
2606:(2010)
2598:(2009)
2590:(2009)
2582:(2008)
2574:(2007)
2566:(2007)
2558:(2006)
2550:(2005)
2531:(1940)
2523:(1930)
2515:(1928)
2496:(2018)
2480:(2001)
2462:Poirot
2457:(1937)
2434:(1974)
2426:(1965)
2392:(2022)
2384:(2017)
2365:(1988)
2357:(1986)
2349:(1986)
2341:(1985)
2333:(1982)
2325:(1978)
2306:(1934)
2298:(1931)
2290:(1931)
2260:(2020)
2252:(2018)
2244:(2016)
2236:(2014)
2217:(1997)
2209:(1997)
2201:(1991)
2193:(1974)
2185:(1961)
2177:(1960)
2169:(1951)
2161:(1950)
2153:(1948)
2145:(1947)
2137:(1939)
2129:(1937)
2121:(1924)
2102:(1975)
2094:(1972)
2086:(1969)
2078:(1966)
2070:(1963)
2062:(1959)
2054:(1956)
2046:(1955)
2038:(1953)
2030:(1952)
2022:(1948)
2014:(1946)
2006:(1942)
1998:(1941)
1990:(1940)
1982:(1940)
1974:(1938)
1966:(1938)
1958:(1937)
1950:(1937)
1942:(1936)
1934:(1936)
1926:(1936)
1918:(1935)
1910:(1934)
1902:(1934)
1894:(1933)
1886:(1932)
1878:(1928)
1870:(1927)
1862:(1926)
1854:(1923)
1846:(1920)
1835:Novels
1700:(home)
1694:(home)
1614:Agatha
689:Novels
176:ACT II
151:Scenes
2512:Alibi
2504:Plays
2415:Other
2287:Alibi
2272:Films
1827:Books
1786:Main
1570:Poems
1377:Plays
411:Cast:
384:Alibi
163:ACT I
1771:'s
107:in
44:by
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407:.
364:.
298:–
143:.
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1754:t
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564:e
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