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1. Hercule Poirot is stumped in 'Lord Edgware Dies' when he fails to make sense of several clues, including a letter written by victim Carlotta Adams and a gold case with an obscure inscription. It isn't until Poirot, at a theater with Hastings, overhears a chance remark by a stranger. He then realizes his mistake was that he never asked a certain character about a certain object. Whom did he not ask about what?
2. Young ladies almost always confide in Poirot about something, or so he claims. But Poirot was too trusting in one young lady who faked several attempts on her life, tricking Poirot into believing someone was trying to kill her. When this lady's cousin is killed, Poirot believes it was an accident and his lady friend was the intended victim. In reality, she has been the killer all along. Who is this woman?
3. Poirot's mistake in 'Mrs. McGinty's Dead' is that he claims he knows more than he really does. The result is that someone tries to push him off of a train platform. Although Poirot has no evidence, he is certain he knows who tried to kill him. Who did he suspect of attempted murder?
4. What mistake did Poirot make in 'Murder on the Orient Express' that delayed his solving of the crime?
5. When he receives a letter from ABC in the 'ABC Murders', Poirot errs by focusing everyone's attention on the St. Leger horse race instead of focusing on the whole town of Doncaster. This proves fatal for someone when the killer strikes elsewhere. Where does ABC claim his fourth victim in Doncaster?
6. Not all of Poirot's missteps lead to tragedy. In 'After the Funeral', Poirot attempts to disguise himself as Monsieur Pontalier only to have the disguise fail when he is recognized by which member of the Abernathie family?
7. In 'The Clocks' Poirot realizes that he made an error in his investigation. If he had just flipped over the piece of paper that read M 61 Crescent, he would have found the murderer at 19 W Crescent.
8. In his last case, 'Curtain', Poirot successfully prevents one murder from occurring, but cannot stop another when which person dies?
9. Also in 'Curtain', Captain Hastings makes a mistake that proves fatal for someone else. What exactly did Hastings do that resulted in that person's death?
10. Agatha Christie believed she made a mistake by putting Hercule Poirot in which novel?
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Joepetz
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