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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: Directed by Edward Bennett. With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran. Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Edward Bennett
- 1989-01-08
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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook is the first episode of series 1 of the ITV British television drama series Agatha Christie's Poirot featuring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, first broadcast on 8 January 1989 in the UK. The episode is an adaptation of the Agatha Christie short story of the same name and was directed by Edward Bennett with dramati...
Mrs Todd prods Poirot into investigating the disappearance of her cook, Miss Eliza Dunn. The Detective is reluctant at first, as he views the case is beneath his dignity, but eventually accepts.
The TV episode is a largely faithful adaptation of the original short story but with the addition of the characters of Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Spoiler warning: •As the very first of the Poirot series, the adaptation is extremely faithful to the original, right down to the actual words in the dialogue, for example the way Mrs Todd berates Poirot for being too snobbish to take up her case, the humourous interview between Poirot and Annie (name is changed from Bessie in the original) about white slavers and Poirot's fury when discharged from the case with payment of 1 guinea.
•Like in the original, he advertises for Eliza Dunn and gets a reply. However Eliza Dunn's cottage is not in Carlisle but in Keswick. She does not come to London to be interviewed by Poirot. Instead Poirot and Hastings go to Keswick to meet her.
•In the story, Poirot solves and explains everything soon after interviewing Eliza Dunn. This would obviously be too soon and too fast for the TV dramatization so several scenes and details were added.
•While waiting for Eliza's reply, Poirot calls on Mr Cameron, a bank manager, for background information on Simpson and Davis.
•Soon after interviewing Eliza Dunn, Poirot hastily phones Japp and leaves a message to say he should be pursuing Simpson and not Davis as the bank thief.
•Hastings is still puzzled. On the train to London, Poirot explains that Eliza Dunn had been persuaded to go to Keswick by a bearded Australian lawyer named Crotchet. When interviewing Simpson earlier on, Poirot had noticed gum arabic on Simpson's face, indicating that he had been wearing a false beard for some reason.
•David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
•Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
•Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
•Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
•Brigit Forsyth as Mrs Todd
•Dermot Crowley as Arthur Simpson
•The Art Deco 1930s
•Surbiton Railway Station - considered the Art Deco masterpiece of Scottish architect James Robb Scott
•Lavish scenery
•High angle shot of train as Poirot and Hastings travel to the Lake District
•Albert Bridge and Battersea Park
•The chase - at Southampton docks
•Florin Court, Charterhouse Square - Whithaven Mansions
•Twickenham Studios, London, England, UK
•Albert Bridge - Poirot and Hastings cross this on the way to Clapham
•38 St Stephen's Gardens, Twickenham TW1 2LT - the Todd residence, 88 Prince Albert Road
•Royal Masonic Hospital - interior of Belgravia and Overseas Bank
•Surbiton station - used as Twickenham Station. Poirot and Hastings go there to inquire about the trunk
A trivial case of a cook who left her employer becomes more complex as Poirot connects coincidence with logic. Published in the UK in 1924 in The Sketch as part of the series The Grey Cells of M. Poirot II . It first appeared in book form the US collection The Under Dog and Other Stories in 1951.
"The Adventure of the Clapham Cook" Poirot receives a visit from a Mrs Todd of Clapham, who insists that he investigate the disappearance of Eliza Dunn, her cook. Two days earlier, Eliza had abruptly left her job without giving notice; she has not communicated with Mrs Todd since then except to send for her trunk that same day.
- Agatha Christie
- 1974
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Summaries. Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime. Poirot is approached by a Mrs. Todd, whose cook, Eliza Dunn, has suddenly disappeared. Poirot manages to track down the cook , and she tells him that a stranger, acting for a law firm, told her that she had ...
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