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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Nurse Jessie Hopkins and Mary Gerrard's namesake aunt Mary Riley are revealed to be the same person.
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''Sad Cypress'' is a 1940 murder mystery novel by Creator/AgathaChristie. Elinor Carlisle seems to be the only possible suspect for the murders of her wealthy aunt, Laura Welman, and her [[MurderTheHypotenuse romantic rival]], Mary Gerrard. However, doctor Peter Lord, who is in love with Elinor, asks Literature/HerculePoirot to [[ClearTheirName clear her name]], insisting she can't be guilty, [[LoveMakesYouDumb despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary]]. Hercule Poirot points out that there's an extremely strong case against her, but still he agrees to investigate the case and find out the truth.
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''Sad Cypress'' is a 1940 murder mystery novel by Creator/AgathaChristie. Elinor Carlisle seems to be the only possible suspect for the murders of her wealthy aunt, Laura Welman, and her [[MurderTheHypotenuse romantic rival]], Mary Gerrard. However, doctor Peter Lord, who is in love with Elinor, asks Literature/HerculePoirot Franchise/HerculePoirot to [[ClearTheirName clear her name]], insisting she can't be guilty, [[LoveMakesYouDumb despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary]]. Hercule Poirot points out that there's an extremely strong case against her, but still he agrees to investigate the case and find out the truth.
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* FairPlayWhodunnit: The book is quite upfront about the clues, up to and including showing the torn medicine label in enough detail to allow the reader to work out that it ''wasn't'' from a morphine bottle.
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* InheritanceMurder: This is the obvious motive for Elinor Carlisle to have committed the murder she is accused of. Naturally, the relationships in play turn out to be more complicated. [[spoiler: However, in the end, this is actually the motive... just several steps more removed. Mary Gerrard was the illegitimate daughter of Laura Welman, and a plausible heir in case her mother died without a will. Mary's own will left all her property to an adoptive aunt. Said aunt turns out to be the murderer, Nurse Hopkins]]
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* InheritanceMurder: This is the obvious motive for Elinor Carlisle to have committed the murder she is accused of. Naturally, the relationships in play turn out to be more complicated. [[spoiler: However, in the end, this is actually the motive... just several steps more removed. Mary Gerrard was the illegitimate daughter of Laura Welman, and a plausible heir in case her mother died without a will. Mary's own will left all her property to an adoptive aunt. Said aunt turns out to be the murderer, Nurse Hopkins]]Hopkins.]]
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* LoveHurts: Elinor discusses about love with Laura Welman, who agrees that love often brings more sadness than joy.
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* LoveHurts: Elinor discusses about love with Laura Welman, who agrees that love often brings more sadness than joy.
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* PullTheThread: Poirot is set on the right path when a character tells a seemingly pointless lie. [[spoiler:Nurse Hopkins has claimed that a piercing mark on her arm was caused by a certain flower's thorn. Since said flower happens to have no thorns, Poirot starts doubting Hopkins' stories. He eventually deduces that the mark was a caused by a hypodermic needle and realises its role in the murder. By that time Hopkins' other lies are more evident to him]]
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* PullTheThread: Poirot is set on the right path when a character tells a seemingly pointless lie. [[spoiler:Nurse Hopkins has claimed that a piercing mark on her arm was caused by a certain flower's thorn. Since said flower happens to have no thorns, Poirot starts doubting Hopkins' stories. He eventually deduces that the mark was a caused by a hypodermic needle and realises its role in the murder. By that time time, Hopkins' other lies are more evident to him]]him.]]
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Following the introduction set in present time, extended flashbacks reveal the events of Laura Welman and Marry Gerrard's deaths, Elinor Carlisle doomed engagement to Roddy, and why she was implicated in the murders. Only then we return to the trial and the related investigations.
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Following the introduction set in present time, extended flashbacks reveal the events of Laura Welman and Marry Gerrard's deaths, Elinor Carlisle Carlisle's doomed engagement to Roddy, and why she was implicated in the murders. Only then do we return to the trial and the related investigations.
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* BlameTheParamour: Elinor develops a seething hatred for Mary, after Roddy dumps Elinor.
* ImprobableAntidote: Mary was killed by morphine poisoning. Nurse Hopkins ingested some morphine as well to divert attention from herself but quickly took apomorphine to remove the poison from her own body.
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* KarmaHoudini: The killer, [[spoiler:Nurse Hopkins]], flees the trial when it looks like their scheme is about to be exposed.
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* KarmaHoudini: The killer, [[spoiler:Nurse Hopkins]], flees the trial when it looks like their scheme is about to be exposed. The book ends without any word that she's been apprehended.
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* SelfPoisoningGambit: Nurse Hopkins drinks the poisoned tea right along with Mary, but then gives herself a dose of an emetic that makes her vomit it up.
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: It turns out that the reason Aunt Laura was so solicitous of Mary Gerrard is that Mary is her biological daughter. Laura got knocked up by a married army officer who was then killed in the war; she passed off the baby as the daughter of one of her maids.
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* QuizzicalTilt: Poirot is "holding his head a little to one side", when he asks Dr. Lord "Why?", after Dr. Lord simply assumes that Poirot will want to go to the scene of the crime. (Poirot's whole method involves careful questioning of suspects rather than examination of crime scenes.)
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* EnglishRose: Jilted suitor Ted Bigland describes the late Mary Gerrard as "like a flower," and elsewhere she is described as blonde-haired and pure-hearted and startlingly beautiful.
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* FingerTenting: Poirot, displaying his usual arrogance, "joined his fingertips" before demanding that Peter tell the secrets he's hiding.
