The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan {2/4}

On his doctor's orders Poirot has gone to stay in the seaside resort of Brighton, where he is frequently mistaken for Lucky Len, who gives out money on behalf of a newspaper to people who recognize him. Poirot is staying at the Metropolitan hotel, as are Mr. Opalsen, a theatrical producer, and his wife who is an actress starring in a play at a local theatre. A set of valuable pearls which Mrs. Opalsen wears in the play is stolen from her room, and suspicion falls on her maid Celestine, who was in the room next door. Celestine loves Andrew, the impoverished young author of Mrs. Opalsen's play but they cannot afford to get married and she is accused of taking the jewels to finance their marriage. Poirot solves the case and unmasks the real culprit, being rewarded by Opalsen and getting a bonus when he identifies the real Lucky Len.

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• Hercule
• Poirot
• season
• five
• mystery
• crime
• murder
• belgian
• detective
• agatha
• christie
• 1930's
• jewels
• robbery

[gwangjuboy1]

'Are you not going to wear the necklace?'

'Nop, I'm tired of being upstaged by them'

Great line.

[sobjackburgdorf]

I know! the boxes were switched. lets see if I'm right.

[youvev54]

The shot inside the drawer at 1:40 its amazing!!

[Oudia777]

Aww, Poirot is pouting!!



[kevinastraw]

I have a theory that the English detective story, particularly before WWII, was an upper class revenge for the creation of a lower middle class police force which had the power to tell them what to do - the typical situation is a dumb copper who is shown how to do his job by a member of the upper class.

[jharker45]

She locks the box the pearls are in but not the drawer in which she places the box?

[thebradester]

Hastings is quite a bit more forceful in his interactions with Poirot in this episode. Not a side of him we get to see too often- I do love their bickering.