Poirot is bored and grumpy, telling Hastings “I’m nothing, Poirot is finished” and therefore he wants to retire. He takes Hastings to the seaside saying that he (Hastings) is tired and needs it :-p During their journey, he notices a guy because he’s growing a moustache which he considers to be an art and he has sympathy for whoever attempts it :-)
On the bus they meet a girl who is going to sell Chinese miniatures (something like that) that are very valuable and she candidly tells them that she’ll have 1500 pounds cash with her on her journey back. Later she’ll cry for help to Hastings, but Poirot says that he can’t help, he’s retired…
She’s a pretty girl in distress though, so Hastings wants to help her himself and starts investigating with the police. Apparently whoever stole the miniatures sold them to the American who didn’t suspect a thing. He gets rather upset when police takes the miniature as evidence.
Poirot goes secretly to listen to Japp’s lecture, thinking he might take credits for Poirot’s work, and listens to him talk badly about private investigators, but then Japp adds “except one”, and “Hercule Poirot is intelligent, brave, sensitive, devastatingly quick” and he goes away with a smile.
At home, Ms Lemon is troubled because she can’t find Poirot’s keys, but then she thinks of him and what he always says, and she tries to recall everything she did step by step, and she finds them! “It really works” she says :-D I like Ms Lemon :-)
When the moustache-grumpy-man turns out to have nothing to do with his case, Hastings thinks the American stole them himself, and of course being the man that he is, he thinks that the man must have a heart and therefore he will confess when he sees the beautiful girl in distress and her aunt on a wheelchair… so he arranges a meeting (well, without telling them).
Truth is, the aunt can walk alright, and she herself ‘stole them’ and sold them to the American man. The two women agreed to the scam in order to get both the money and then the miniatures back. Poirot unveils everything. So, Hastings’ plan worked, but it was the other way around, the exact opposite of what he was thinking :-p He could never be a good detective because not even for a second he’d suspect a pretty girl and her aunt on a wheelchair :-p
From a clip of newspaper, Hastings understands that Poirot knew beforehand of Japp’s lecture and went there on purpose :-p
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