Agatha Christie’s Poirot - How does your garden grow?

 I liked it and yet I didn’t… I mean that I really like this version of Poirot and I also really like Miss Lemon, and they provided nice scenes to enjoy, but the execution of the plot lacked something… to make it understandable or enjoyable by someone who doesn’t know the story. 

The best part, aside from enjoying Poirot and Miss Lemon out together, was seeing what happened to her perfect filing cabinet, and also her anger when he went against her wishes and paid the bill in cash. I really like Miss Lemon, and I would have loved to have Miss Lemon’s job. 

Another side note is that Hastings doesn’t go with them because he’s allergic, and they all think it’s about flowers, but when they come back he has learned that’s not the case. He’s allergic to a specific perfume, one that one aunt used to wear (I think it was) and that now he can smell everytime he’s near Poirot. Apparently the new cologne he bought to smell like a rose is the perfume Hastings is allergic to. Poirot is quite annoyed at that, and sends them out :lol: 

I didn’t know this story, and it would have been the usual family nurder but for the maid/companion that was Russian. After watching this I looked on the internet and they say that her romance with the young man working at the embassy is prohibited because she was an aristocrat and he’s a communist… which makes it illegal… I don’t know how much of that is true, I didn’t get it from the show, they weren’t very clear, were they? Or it’s just me who didn’t get it? (Still, as soon as she’s no longer suspected, she kisses her man and they take a taxi to the Ritz… no more hiding, all of a sudden? Why?

The murder was quite simple: the rich old lady Amelia Barrowby and her only relatives, her niece Mary Delafontaine and her husband. They invest and lose a lot, and they also learn that Amelia has willed all her money to Katrina, her Russian maid, or companion, a bit of both I’d say. So Mary plans to murder her aunt and frame Katrina, at which point she’d get the money. 

Poirot guesses that she put the poison in the oysters that she secretly gave her. He saw the shells in her garden. He got Miss Lemon to talk to the shop owner, and he remembered perfectly that he sold Mary the oysters. 

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