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Inspector's not convinced, pointing out that Clarissa knew of the hidden body. Bringing Clarissa back, Sir Rowland tells her to tell the police the truth. Desperate to shield Pippa, most of the story she tells is truthful except for the confession of her stepdaughter. Under some duress from Lord, she is forced to change her tale again and this time confesses to the crime herself, albeit stating that she killed Costello thinking he was a burglar. Questioned over Elgin's remembrance of the use of the word "blackmail", she states that this was a discussion over the cheap rental they are being charged for the house – four guineas a week. Sir Rowland comes back into the room, despite being told to keep out, desperate to find out how Clarissa is doing and is appalled to hear of her own confession. Taking Clarissa through her story more carefully, the recess door is opened, and the Inspector receives a shock – the body has gone!
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odious blackmailer will hardly regard the solution as one of the author's happiest. There is a like risk that the rest of the audience will be bored with a comedy which has to accommodate itself to the requirements of a long police interrogation. The common ground on which both sections may stand is dangerously small." The reviewer admitted that, "the thriller gives all the characters a turn and yet contrives at the end to produce a twist. It is a twist which surprises rather than satisfies the logical mind", but they concluded, "the play as a whole is the least exciting and not the most amusing of the three Agatha
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Costello to Miss Peake before she showed him from the house to the effect that he came "to see Mrs. Brown" and she realises that Miss Peake is, in fact, Mrs. Brown, Sellon's former partner. Miss Peake admits the fact and explains that
Clarissa was given the rent of the house cheaply to install another Mrs Brown to lure other fortune hunters who were after Sellon's unknown amazing discovery. She laughs off the apparent danger she put Clarissa in stating that she kept a very close eye on things, such as her being on the scene when Costello was threatening her earlier in the evening.
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progress of some time having elapsed. She tells them that her motive is Henry's diplomatic visit. The three somewhat incredulous men fall in uneasily with her plan but only after Sir
Rowland has been told by Clarissa of Pippa's supposed involvement. Wearing gloves supplied by Clarissa, they manage to move the body back into the recess, with the intention of moving him later, but are interrupted when the police unexpectedly arrive. Inspector Lord is there following a mysterious phone call to the station telling them that a murder has been committed at the house.
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hands of bridge that evening. This is similar to an attempted alibi in the short story "King of Clubs," which appears in 'Poirot's Early Cases'. A family claims that they have been playing bridge all night and therefore cannot be involved in a murder that has occurred in their neighbour's house. Poirot sees through this lie after he discovers that a card (the King of Clubs) is missing from the pack on the table. This discovery proves the family's alibi of playing bridge was false and they have lied about their whereabouts that evening.
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that
Miranda and Costello's real motive is to obtain money from Henry and she accuses him of blackmail, a word overheard by Elgin just as he enters the room to tell Clarissa that he and his wife are off out. When he has gone, Clarissa, in turn, threatens to expose Costello and Miranda's drug activities. Pippa comes into the room, appalled to see Costello there as she is terrified of the man. Clarissa throws him out of the house with the help of Miss Peake and Clarissa calms the hysterical Pippa down and sends her for her bath.
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before, he starts to go through the contents of the desk with the secret drawer. Behind him, the door of the hidden recess opens and an unseen hand clubs him down. He falls to the ground behind a sofa. After
Clarissa shows her husband off, she re-enters the room and soon finds the body of Costello. Almost instantly Pippa comes through the hidden recess and starts babbling hysterically that she is responsible. Clarissa tries to calm her down while wondering what she will do...
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woman who lives in a cottage on the estate and acts as gardener. Having delivered her message for
Clarissa, she leaves and Pippa reappears eating a bun and carrying a book she has bought which she mysteriously describes as a "recipe book" although it strangely speaks of candles. Asked by Jeremy if she likes living at Copplestone Court, Pippa enthuses over the house and shows Jeremy a hidden door at the back of the room which leads to a small recess (which she calls a "
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Clarissa talking to Costello of blackmail. Hugo is unable to provide any additional information, other than that he knew of Costello as "the kind of fellow women liked, and men had no use for." During the questioning of Jeremy, the Inspector finds the gloves used to move Costello that were hurriedly hidden in the drawing room by the three men when the police arrived. The accompanying officer also finds one of the
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their golf match has been rained off. The two older men move off to sample more of the Port, while Jeremy chats with
Clarissa. He asks why she makes up stories, like the one he just tried to emulate, and she explains how nobody ever believes her when she tells the truth, but they believe her when she tells stories; and she explains that her life has always been peaceful and quiet, and these little tales are a way to make it a little more interesting.
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that he is the killer. He was away from the other two men for a time after they had gone to the club to eat and a remark Pippa made about seeing his golf club ("A golf stick like Jeremy had", in the context of the weapon used to kill
Costello) ties in. He also rang the police to try to incriminate Clarissa. Jeremy confesses; his motive was the envelope that the autographed papers were kept in – on it is an extremely rare
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diplomatic guests who have failed to turn up. But then he gets a call that the apparent failure of the visiting dignitary to arrive was a deliberate ruse for security purposes; that he has now arrived; and he and the foreign minister are on their way to the house—which he and Clarissa must now tidy-up
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Sir Rowland and the other two men leave for the golf club and soon after Clarissa receives another and very unwanted visitor: Oliver Costello, who tells her that Miranda wants Pippa living back with her and Costello, thus breaching the verbal agreement Henry reached with his ex-wife. Clarissa guesses
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Pippa then arrives home from school, hungry as always. Clarissa takes her with her to find something to eat and, momentarily alone, Jeremy starts to investigate a desk in the room, quickly looking through the drawers until he is interrupted by the arrival of Miss Mildred Peake, a big, hearty country
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worth the fourteen thousand pounds. Jeremy admits that he'd also killed Sellon after first finding out about the stamp from his employer, who was in communication with Sellon, and after not being able to find the stamp at Sellon's shop, he then realized the stamp was in the house instead, and killed
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and they test them, revealing the names of six distributors of drugs, including Costello. Going to tell the police their findings, the sleeping Pippa is left alone and, after a moment, Jeremy re-enters and is about to smother the girl's face with a cushion when Clarissa comes back. She soon realises
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Miss Peake, suffering hysterics, has been helped upstairs. Clarissa has been fed a glass of brandy and has now recovered and, after closing the recess door to hide the unpleasant sight of the body, the police question all the people separately. Elgin and his wife have returned early from their night
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Henry comes home briefly. He tells his wife that he has been entrusted with holding a secret pre-conference meeting at his home with a foreign diplomat who is arriving that night and he leaves to meet them. The room is empty for a moment and Costello re-enters through the French windows. Like Jeremy
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He is about to kill Clarissa when the police enter the room, having heard the exchange, and arrest him. They take him away and find Costello's body, though Lord also admonishes Clarissa and Miss Peake for their attempts to cover up the murder. The others go to bed and Henry returns but without his
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of the bed she was "recovering" on. Pippa also comes downstairs, still drowsy over her sleeping pill and talking about seeing policemen in her room in her dreams. She also thinks that her sighting of Oliver was a dream and links this to the wax doll she produces – her "recipe" book was an ancient
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dealer in Maidstone and the furnishings are his. His former trade means that enquiries are received about some of his furniture, including one for the desk that, unbeknown to her, Jeremy had been searching through earlier. Walking in on the conversation, Pippa tells the two that she has found out
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whilst Jeremy is trying to improve on the race time achieved by the Herzoslovakian minister, a previous guest to the house, who supposedly ran to the lodge gates and back three times in record time. Both contests however are spoofs designed by the fun-loving Clarissa to occupy her guests' time as
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diplomat, Henry, and stepmother to his daughter, Pippa, who is about twelve years old. They are currently living at Copplestone Court, a large house they are renting at a very cheap price in Kent. There are three guests staying with them: Sir Rowland Delahaye (Clarissa's Guardian in his fifties),
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The group's alibi of playing bridge all evening is ruined when the Inspector notices a playing card on the floor across the room from the bridge table. A full deck of cards is needed to properly play bridge. Therefore, the Inspector knows the group could not have been playing several consecutive
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when her three guests arrive back, summoned by a phone call from her. She asks them to move the body to Costello's car which she knows is parked some distance from the house to a local wood. Their alibi will be the bridge game for which she has set up the cards with false scores to indicate the
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This adds another mystery – who did kill Costello? Pippa is helped to lie on the sofa and Clarissa is suddenly struck by something Hugo said earlier when he stated that Sellon's antique shop was called "Sellon and Brown". She remembers the phone call asking for Mrs. Brown and a comment made by
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Preparations are being made for the three guests to eat at the nearby golf club as it is the night off for the Elgins, Clarissa's married butler and cook. Sir Rowland congratulates Clarissa on her relationship with and handling of Pippa who had a bad time with her real mother, Miranda and her
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a month, whereas other inquirers are told the sum was eighteen guineas. This is to make sure that someone with the surname of Brown becomes resident to lure thieves to the house to steal something they think the real Mrs Brown possesses. This repeats the plot of the 1923 short story
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drug-supplying lover, Oliver Costello. A phone call to the house is strangely cut off when Clarissa tells the caller that she is not Mrs. Brown but Mrs. Hailsham-Brown. Clarissa tells Sir Rowland that the house used to belong to a Mr. Sellon, a now-deceased
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apart from most specimens of its overstuffed genre, is that its real motive is fun; all else—dropped clues, plot contrivances—is secondary. And the Lady of Copplestone Court, Clarissa Hailsham-Brown, has a talent to amuse."
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in 1924), where a couple called Robinson are cheaply let a flat so that they might act as unwitting decoys for two spies who are in fear of their lives and who were living under the alias of Mr and Mrs
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and this explains why she confessed to killing Costello: she thought her "
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910:Curtain Up: Agatha Christie: A Life in the Theatre
1976:The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
674:The play was adapted for BBC TV in 1955 starring
306:Clarissa Hailsham-Brown is the second wife of a
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1141:"Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood"
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1012:(Page 80) 1990, Belgrave Publishing Ltd;
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2046:While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
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1997:The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
366:(The same. A quarter of an hour later)
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2427:Detective, mystery and crime plays
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1983:Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
525:, reviewing a 1997 production for
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2011:The Golden Ball and Other Stories
1139:Vagg, Stephen (29 January 2020).
1048:. New York: Harper. p. 410.
937:. New York: Harper. p. 377.
912:. New York: Harper. p. 413.
817:Cast of the 1982 BBC production:
736:Charles Morgan as Oliver Costello
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1990:The Under Dog and Other Stories
1376:The Mysterious Affair at Styles
627:French's Acting Edition No. 834
418:(The same. A few minutes later)
207:The Case of the Buried Treasure
191:The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
2325:Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
2317:Agatha and the Truth of Murder
1073:. 15 December 1954. p. 6.
1010:Official Centenary Celebration
585:Sidney Monckton as Elgin, the
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2388:Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
2263:The Mousetrap and Other Plays
1425:The Mystery of the Blue Train
1084:Alvin, Klein (13 July 1997).
961:(pp. 147–148) Collins, 1972;
392:(The same, ten minutes later)
2004:Double Sin and Other Stories
1782:By the Pricking of My Thumbs
1467:Murder on the Orient Express
1293:Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
981:Agatha Christie, A Biography
538:Credits of London production
16:1954 play by Agatha Christie
2106:Witness for the Prosecution
1411:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1033:Royal Party in Dress Circle
545:Cast of London production:
491:Witness for the Prosecution
264:Witness for the Prosecution
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106:Witness for the Prosecution
21:Spider Web (disambiguation)
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1474:Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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542:Director: Wallace Douglas
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2287:Agatha Christie Memorial
2071:And Then There Were None
1948:Parker Pyne Investigates
1565:One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1551:And Then There Were None
1031:, 8 March 1955, page 1,
983:(p. 297) Collins, 1984;
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1969:The Labours of Hercules
1879:A Daughter's a Daughter
1670:They Do It with Mirrors
1586:The Body in the Library
1432:The Seven Dials Mystery
1390:The Murder on the Links
1308:Captain Arthur Hastings
1158:Campbell, Mark (2015).
697:as Sir Rowland Delahaye
558:as Sir Rowland Delahaye
269:On 7 March 1955, Queen
250:The play opened at the
213:in the 1950 collection
2078:Appointment with Death
1941:The Listerdale Mystery
1920:The Mysterious Mr Quin
1810:Elephants Can Remember
1796:Passenger to Frankfurt
1614:Death Comes as the End
1530:Appointment with Death
1404:The Secret of Chimneys
1044:Green, Julius (2015).
933:Green, Julius (2015).
908:Green, Julius (2015).
860:– Pippa Hailsham-Brown
854:– Henry Hailsham-Brown
830:– Sir Rowland Delahaye
500:With 744 performances
479:was a fan, writing in
2039:The Harlequin Tea Set
1927:The Thirteen Problems
1726:Cat Among the Pigeons
1649:A Murder Is Announced
1502:Murder in Mesopotamia
1446:The Sittaford Mystery
1288:Superintendent Battle
1164:. Pocket Essentials.
1112:, Samuel French, 1957
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302:(An evening in March)
2134:The Unexpected Guest
2018:Poirot's Early Cases
1865:Absent in the Spring
1712:4.50 from Paddington
1698:Hickory Dickory Dock
1684:A Pocket Full of Rye
1656:They Came to Baghdad
1383:The Secret Adversary
1303:Sir Henry Clithering
775:1960 film adaptation
646:The Unexpected Guest
313:justice of the peace
157:Mirabelle restaurant
19:For other uses, see
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1962:The Regatta Mystery
1906:Poirot Investigates
1858:Unfinished Portrait
1754:A Caribbean Mystery
1719:Ordeal by Innocence
1691:Destination Unknown
1488:Death in the Clouds
1123:Spider's Web (1955)
999:Saunders (Page 148)
703:as Jeremy Warrender
570:as Jeremy Warrender
197:Poirot Investigates
99:which premiered in
2228:The Road of Dreams
2141:Go Back for Murder
2085:Murder on the Nile
1955:Murder in the Mews
1934:The Hound of Death
1761:At Bertram's Hotel
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