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One Poisoning.
One Blow to the Head.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
What reason would an amiable dentist like Dr. Morley have for committing suicide? He didn't have emotional difficulties, money problems, or love trouble. What he did have was an appointment with Hercule Poirot, who is not persuaded by the suicide story and has therefore taken it upon himself to question the good doctor's patients, partners and friends. He has a suspicion that Dr. Morley wasn't an unlikely murder victim after all. Nor was he the first...Year: 1940
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: London
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: London
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot, Inspector Japp. Also: Colonel Abercrombie, Mr. Amberiotis, Reginald Barnes, Alistair Blunt, Frank Carter, Agnes Fletcher, Gerda Grant, Mr. Harrison, Ram Lal, Mrs. Merton, Georgina and Henry Morley, Gladys Neville, Jane and Julia Olivera, Howard Raikes, Mr. Reilly, Mabelle Sainsbury SealePublishing history
Publishing: The novel was published in 1940 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and in 1941 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. TV: Adapted in 1992 by LWT in Britain with David Suchet as Poirot, and also shown on PBS in the U.S.Notes and reviews
The novel contains ten chapters, each loosely corresponding to a line in the nursery rhyme of the title.Murder methods:
One Gunshot.One Poisoning.
One Blow to the Head.