Poirot asks Hastings to stand on the other side of the Hall, where Cynthia's room is, and wait. Poirot, Hastings, and the two men from the Scotland Yard return to the Hall to further investigate the room. Japp proclaims that he, personally, would take any number of salacious rumors about himself over prison time. Raikes are false, but that it is nonetheless true that he was over there discussing sensitive matters. Alfred maintains that the rumors that he was cheating on Emily with Mrs. Japp implores Alfred to explain why he didn't simply clear his name at the inquest, and Poirot and Alfred jointly explain that Alfred's innocence hinges upon a scandalous confession-that he was spending time at the Raikes's farm. All have motive and opportunity but only Poirot can discover the truth.Detective-Inspector Japp is stunned by Poirot's insights into Alfred Inglethorp's innocence, and grateful to him for preventing a public disgrace for Scotland Yard had they arrested a prominent society figure like Alfred Inglethorp on flawed pretenses. Bauerstein, a mysterious stranger who lives in Essex.
Inglethorpe's companion Cynthia Murdoch, her protegee and Dr. High on Poirot's list of suspects are: John Cavendish, the elder stepson Mary Cavendish, his wife Lawrence Cavendish, the younger stepson Evelyn Howard, Mrs. Nobody can explain how or when the strychnine was administered to Mrs. Afterwards, she seemed quite distressed and, apparently, made a new will-which no one can find. On the day she was killed, Emily Inglethorp was overheard arguing with someone, most likely her husband, Alfred, or her stepson, John. Mary-from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. With impeccable timing, Hercule Poirot, the insightful retired detective, makes his dramatic entrance to solve a most baffling case. When Emily's sudden heart attack is found to be attributable to strychnine, Hastings, who had runs into his old friend, the Belgian Hercule Poirot, he recruits him to aid in the local investigation. Late one night, the residents of Styles wake to find Emily Inglethorp dying.
Emily's two stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish, as well as John's wife Mary and several other people, also live at Styles.
The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St.
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