The Clue That Helped Poirot to Find the Truth! Quiz

Answer: Both of these

"Ah!" Poirot gave a sharp exclamation.
"It tells you something?" asked the doctor.
Poirot's eyes were shining. He laid down the tongs carefully.
"Yes," he said. "I know the dead man's real name. I know why he had to leave
America."

Poirot knew now that the man traveling under the name Ratchett was actually Cassetti, responsible for the kidnapping and murder of little Daisy Armstrong.
He escaped punishment. But now it seemed there was at least one person on the train wanting revenge for this.

The book was released in 1934. The US title was "Murder in the Calais Coach".

Answer: A fake mustache

Old and rich, Simeon Lee died at Christmas eve while the family was visiting. Watching Superintendent Sugden, the investigating police officer, gave him the idea that he could be one of the many illegal sons the old man had boasted of having sired. Sugden had a wonderful mustache. When Poirot donned Simeon Lee's painting with a fake one, the proof of relationship was clear. But was he also the murderer?

The book was released in 1939; the US title was "Murder for Christmas".

Answer: A pair of pince-nez; Ellis, Jane Wilkinson's maid

Poirot opened Carlotta Adams' small black morocco handbag and found a pair of golden-rimmed pince-nez. He soon learned that Miss Adams didn't need glasses, and the murderer had forgotten them after using them as a disguise. To trace them back to Ellis helped to find the person who had abstracted them, and the killer was caught.

The book was released in 1933, in the USA as "Thirteen at Dinner".

Answer: The letter was written in blue ink, her pen was filled with green ink.

Celia had written an apology to the other students, because of some stupid things she had done. This letter was written with a common ink color. As she had run out of her ink after writing it, she filled her pen with green ink, belonging to another student. When she was found dead, her pen had still the green liquid in it. This was one clue that there was murder to investigate - not a suicide.

The book was released in 1955 with the same title on both sides of the Atlantic.

Answer: She said the mark on her wrist was from a prick of the rose.

'Zephirine Drouhin', with an abundance of beautiful roses blossoming, has a marvelous advantage over other roses: she is a rose without thorns.

So our witness had lied when she said that she had pricked herself. Poirot wondered about that lie and what really caused the mark on the wrist. From this moment on Poirot was on the right track.

PS: I've got a 'Zephirine Drouhin' in my garden. I was inspired to plant it by the book and yes: it is really without thorns. And what a beauty she is!

The book was released in 1940. No title change.

Answer: The train had left the station, one alibi was disproved.

While Lynn was looking at the clouds, David Hunter met with her. He himself was running to catch the London train and promised her to call her from there. He did so, and this gave him an alibi, one sorely needed by him, because he knew a dead body was close to discovery.

Learning from Lynn that she had seen the steam clouds proved to Poirot that the train already had left the station. The call was also faked. David's alibi had gone up in smoke. But was he really the murderer?

The book was released in 1940. A US-American had to ask for "There is a Tide ..."

Answer: She called the police.

Soon after the fall Miss Arundell remembered that she had put the ball away, and that Bob had strayed that night. She also was sure that it did not feel like slipping on a ball.

She suspected her loving relatives, all out for money. And all visiting. So she changed her will to the loss of her family. And she wrote to Poirot, as she did not want to involve the police in a family affair. Too bad the letter was delayed, and she was dead when the great detective received it. Someone had found another method to kill the old lady.

Poirot could prove Bob's innocence by showing how the incident with the ball was done. He could also reconstruct the actual murder following this.

The book was released in 1937. Over the Atlantic Ocean readers followed the plot in "Poirot Loses a Client".

Answer: False

Poirot sensed an overdoing in trying to blame a woman. Why leave such an obvious clue as a stained cup? Nobody else was in the house. There was enough time for doing the dishes. And it is easy to splash perfume around and rub lipstick on a cup.

The murderer accomplished the opposite of what he wanted. Poirot was now looking for a man.

The book was released in 1952 without a change of the title. Well, it had another title in Germany "Vier Frauen und ein Mord" (Four women and one murder). But I don't want to overdo it.

Answer: The victim, Paul Renauld

Monsieur and Madame Renauld had planned to fake the death of M Renauld to make a new start. That included a letter to Poirot, fictional South American abductors and the corpse of another man. To embellish it, a foreign matchstick was dropped by him as a sign of internationality. To the bad luck of Paul Renauld someone turned his planned fictional death in a real one.

While Giraud fell for the small clue, Poirot noticed a bigger one that the former had claimed to be unimportant. Giraud erred, Poirot did not.

The book was released in 1923, same title in York and New York.

Answer: Hercule Poirot

The owner of the little gray cells was old and frail. But these gray cells still worked perfectly! He spotted someone who viciously used psychological pressure to provoke other people to commit murder, someone who just loved the sensation of a murder case. When this tactic was tried on Hastings, Poirot stepped in to prevent Hastings from committing a murder. After this Poirot felt it necessary to stop the villain once and for all by killing him. This involved the use of a fake mustache he had been wearing at this time. I hope it looked better than the one I've drawn here. Poirot always loved his magnificent mustache and took great care of it.

This curtain call was released in 1975.