A bossy studio boss is killed with a blow to the back of his head. The body is discovered in his library by a famous actress, who runs and finds refuge in a nearby house. Fearing that she might be implicated in a scandal, her fiancé, who also happens to be a prince, asks Poirot to find out what really happened. A minor episode in the "Poirot" series, which means it's still very watchable, but there are hardly any outstanding moments or lines in it. The clue of the title must be one of the easiest Poirot ever encountered, and his theory about what occurred on the night of the murder is largely based on a bloodstain that a) we the viewers had never seen before (unfair), and b) it seems hard to believe that Japp and his boys could have missed it even in their routine examination of the crime scene. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of The King of Clubs
