I felt that this was a rather odd and low key episode. The episode is certainly less lighthearted and more darker of the early Poirot episodes.
Mrs Pengelley is a reluctant visitor to Poirot. She thinks that her husband, a dentist is trying to kill her and carrying on with his dental assistant. Poirot and Hastings go to Cornwall the next day but alas are too late. Mrs Pengelly is dead, the husband has gossip surrounded him and Hastings can certainly attest to the gorgeousness of the dental assistant.
However Poirot is disappointed that he let Mrs Pengelley down but some months later returns to save her husband from the gallows when he becomes the main suspect, however Poirot needs to use all his cunning to trap the real killer.
It was worth it just to see Hasting's face when he claps eyes on the dental assistant. Hastings is also in this episode enamoured with all things eastern mystical.
Mrs Pengelley is a reluctant visitor to Poirot. She thinks that her husband, a dentist is trying to kill her and carrying on with his dental assistant. Poirot and Hastings go to Cornwall the next day but alas are too late. Mrs Pengelly is dead, the husband has gossip surrounded him and Hastings can certainly attest to the gorgeousness of the dental assistant.
However Poirot is disappointed that he let Mrs Pengelley down but some months later returns to save her husband from the gallows when he becomes the main suspect, however Poirot needs to use all his cunning to trap the real killer.
It was worth it just to see Hasting's face when he claps eyes on the dental assistant. Hastings is also in this episode enamoured with all things eastern mystical.