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* PlotHole: If Nurse Hopkins wanted to murder Mary and frame Elinor for the murder, then it doesn't make sense to [[ItMakesSenseInContext offer the poisoned tea]] to Elinor as well; Elinor would have died, too, which would have been extremely risky and there would have been noone to frame.
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* PlotHole: If Nurse Hopkins wanted to murder Mary and frame Elinor for the murder, then it doesn't make sense to [[ItMakesSenseInContext offer the poisoned tea]] to Elinor as well; Elinor would have died, too, which would have been extremely risky and there would have been noone to frame. The TV adaptation gets around this by having Elinor state that she doesn't like tea, and hence wouldn't be drinking it anyway.
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* UnwantedHarem: It's not exactly a harem, strictly speaking, but Mary shows no interest at all in any of the men passionately in love with her.
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* UnwantedHarem: It's not exactly a harem, strictly speaking, but Mary shows no interest at all in any of the men passionately in love with her.
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* AssholeVictim: Subverted. Both Laura Welman and Mary Gerrard are sympathetic characters, Mary verging on the angelic.
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* AssholeVictim: Subverted. Both Laura Welman and Mary Gerrard are sympathetic characters, Mary verging on the angelic. The main reason Elinor is accused apart from the evidence, is that nobody else would even seem to have a motive for killing such nice people in the first place.
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* EmotionlessGirl: Roddy thinks (read: deludes himself) that Elinor is this, when in fact her feelings for him are much stronger/more passionate than his for her.
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* HappyFlashback: Lampshaded in the movie; in the opening scene, Elinor is in the courtroom and the last of her thought we get to hear is: "The beginning... the beginning... it seemed happy..."
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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Mrs Bishop lectures Poirot about respecting the dead and how she can not possibly judge the dead Mary Gerrard, but then she somehow manages to make him understand [[GossipyHens exactly what she thought of her]].
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dr. Lord is in love with Elinor, who's in love with Roddy. Roddy is fond of Elinor but has fallen head-over-heels for Mary Gerrard. Mary finds Roddy's attentions annoying and keeps telling him to go back to Elinor. Meanwhile, Mary has Ted, her boyfriend in the village. She likes him, but but has ambitions that are likely to take her away from him. (However, after about two hundred and fifty pages of this, a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] is implied in the end with Elinor and Dr Lord. D'aw.)
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dr. Lord is in love with Elinor, who's in love with Roddy. Roddy is fond of Elinor but has fallen head-over-heels for Mary Gerrard. Mary finds Roddy's attentions annoying and keeps telling him to go back to Elinor. Meanwhile, Mary has Ted, her boyfriend in the village. She likes him, but but has ambitions that are likely to take her away from him. (However, after about two hundred and fifty pages of this, a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] is implied in the end with Elinor and Dr Lord. D'aw.)
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* TheButlerDidIt: No, seriously. Well, not an actual butler, but still.
* EmotionlessGirl: Roddy thinks (read: deludes himself) that Elinor is this, when in fact her feelings for him are much stronger/more passionate than his for her.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dr. Lord is in love with Elinor, who's in love with Roddy. Roddy is fond of Elinor but has fallen head-over-heels for Mary Gerrard. Mary finds Roddy's attentions annoying and keeps telling him to go back to Elinor. (However, after about two hundred and fifty pages of this, a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] is implied in the end with Elinor and Dr Lord. D'aw.)
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dr. Lord is in love with Elinor, who's in love with Roddy. Roddy is fond of Elinor but has fallen head-over-heels for Mary Gerrard. Mary finds Roddy's attentions annoying and keeps telling him to go back to Elinor. Meanwhile, Mary has Ted, her boyfriend in the village. She likes him, but but has ambitions that are likely to take her away from him. (However, after about two hundred and fifty pages of this, a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] is implied in the end with Elinor and Dr Lord. D'aw.)
** Also true of Elinor's love for Roddy and implied about Mrs. Welman's experiences. The one thing love definitely does not make anyone in this book is happy.
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* RockBottom: When Poirot warns Dr. Lord that he will reveal any evidence he finds in the investigation, even if it makes the case against Elinor look worse, Dr. Lord informs him that the case against Elinor [[TemptingFate can't possibly get any worse]].
* RockBottom: When Poirot warns Dr. Lord that he will reveal any evidence he finds in the investigation, even if it makes the case against Elinor look worse, Dr. Lord informs him that the case against Elinor [[TemptingFate can't possibly get any worse]].
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Peter Lord. Just listen to him.
--> "Does it matter? She might have done it, yes! I don't care if she did. [...] But I don't want her hanged, I tell you! Suppose she was driven desperate? [...] Haven't you got any pity?
--> "Does it matter? She might have done it, yes! I don't care if she did. [...] But I don't want her hanged, I tell you! Suppose she was driven desperate? [...] Haven't you got any pity?
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* PlotHole: If Nurse Hopkins wanted to murder Mary and frame Elinor for the murder, then it doesn't make sense to [[ItMakesSenseInContext offer the poisoned tea]] to Elinor as well; she would have died, too, which would have been extremely risky and there would have been noone to frame.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dr. Lord is in love with Elinor, who's in love with Roddy. Roddy is fond of Elinor but has fallen head-over-heels for Mary Gerrard. Mary finds Roddy's attentions annoying and keeps telling him to go back to Elinor. (However, after about two hundred and fifty pages of this, a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] is implied in the end with Elinor and Dr Lord. D'aw.)
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* MiscarriageOfJustice: Strictly speaking, that's only in the adaptation, since Elinor is found not guilty in the book. However, according to her housekeeper, Mrs Bishop, even her arrest is "disgraceful", probably the result of @these new-fangled methods of the police".
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* MiscarriageOfJustice: Strictly speaking, that's only in the adaptation, since Elinor is found not guilty in the book. However, according to her housekeeper, Mrs Bishop, even her arrest is "disgraceful", probably the result of @these "these new-fangled methods of the police".
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* LoveTriangle: Or something. Granted, Mary's not even interested in and Elinor has the grace to break up with him once she realizes he's not in love with her. But it's still two women, one man and a major source of drama for the greatest part of the book.
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* LoveTriangle: Or something. Granted, Mary's not even interested Roddy in and Elinor has the grace to break up with him once she realizes he's not in love with her. But it's still two women, one man and a major source of drama for the greatest part of the book.
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* NotSoStoic: Elinor is initially portrayed as a stoic, unemotional ice queen, but as she and Roddy are characterised in more detail it becomes clear that she is actually the more caring and emotional of the two.
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The novel has been adapted for radio in 1992 by BBC Radio 4 with John Moffat as Poirot. It has also been [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402444/ adapted for TV]] by London Weekend Television as part of the ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' series in 2003 starring David Suchet as Poirot and Elizabeth Dermot-Welsh as Elinor Carlisle.
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The novel has been adapted for radio in 1992 by BBC Radio 4 with John Moffat as Poirot. It has also been [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402444/ adapted for TV]] by London Weekend Television as part of the ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' series in 2003 starring David Suchet as Poirot and Elizabeth Dermot-Welsh Dermot-Walsh as Elinor Carlisle.
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The novel has been adapted for radio in 1992 by BBC Radio 4 with John Moffat as Poirot. It has also been [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402444/ adapted for TV]] by London Weekend Television as part of the ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' series in 2003.
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The novel has been adapted for radio in 1992 by BBC Radio 4 with John Moffat as Poirot. It has also been [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402444/ adapted for TV]] by London Weekend Television as part of the ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' series in 2003.
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The novel opens with a prologue where we get to see part of Elinor's trial and follow some of her thoughts, and proceeds with a series of flashbacks which tell the story in three parts. It contains CourtroomDrama; it's one of the two times Christie used the lovely-woman-in-the-docks plot (the other being "Five Little Pigs".) Interestingly, instead of having a SummationGathering, the solution is presented at court at the end of the book. The novel has been criticized for its abrupt ending and lack of plausible suspects, but it has received positive reviews as a suspenseful and well-written detective story.
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The novel opens with a prologue where we get to see part of Elinor's trial and follow some of her thoughts, and proceeds with a series of flashbacks which tell the story in three parts. It contains CourtroomDrama; it's one of the two times Christie used the lovely-woman-in-the-docks plot (the other being "Five Little Pigs".''FiveLittlePigs'', to a much lesser extent.) Interestingly, instead of having a SummationGathering, the solution is presented at court at the end of the book. The novel has been criticized for its abrupt ending and lack of plausible suspects, but it has received positive reviews as a suspenseful and well-written detective story.
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-> Come away, come away, death, and in sad cypress let me be laid; fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew- oh, prepare it! My part of death- noone so true did share it.
-->- ''TwelfthNight'', Act II Scene IV (novel's epigraph)
-->- ''TwelfthNight'', Act II Scene IV (novel's epigraph)
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: A line from the adaptation: [[spoiler: "She was murdered, but not by these disgusting sandwiches."]]
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*AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the original novel, Elinor's innocence is proved at court thanks to the clues gathered by Poirot. However, in the adaptation, Elinor is found ''guilty'' and sentenced to be hanged in five days after her appeal is denied. Poirot does manage to acquit her, but it's much more [[TrueArtIsAngsty angsty]] that way.
*AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the original novel, Elinor's innocence is proved at court thanks to the clues gathered by Poirot. However, in the adaptation, Elinor is found ''guilty'' and sentenced to be hanged in five days after her appeal is denied. Poirot does manage to acquit her, but it's much more [[TrueArtIsAngsty angsty]] that way.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Strictly speaking, that's only in the adaptation, since Elinor is found not guilty in the book. However, according to her housekeeper, Mrs Bishop, even her arrest is "disgraceful", probably the result of @these new-fangled methods of the police".
* PlotHole: If Nurse Hopkins wanted to murder Mary and frame Elinor for the murder, then it doesn't make sense to [[ItMakesSenseInContext offer the poisoned tea]] to Elinor as well; she would have died, too, which would have been extremely risky and there would have been noone to frame.
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*TheButlerDidIt: No, seriously. Well, not an actual butler, but still.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: A line from the adaptation: [[spoiler: "She was murdered, but not by these disgusting sandwiches."]]
* FunnyForeigner: More so than in other Poirot books. He has to fake an interest in the royal family to get one of the villagers to talk to him.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: A line from the adaptation: [[spoiler: "She was murdered, but not by these disgusting sandwiches."]]
* FunnyForeigner: More so than in other Poirot books. He has to fake an interest in the royal family to get one of the villagers to talk to him.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dr. Lord is in love with Elinor, who's in love with Roddy. Roddy is fond of Elinor but has fallen head-over-heels for Mary Gerrard. Mary finds Roddy's attentions annoying and keeps telling him to go back to Elinor.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Elinor and Roddy.
* IGaveMyWord: Elinor promised her aunt Laura that she would see to it that a provision was made for Mary Gerrard in Laura's will. When Aunt Laura died before she could write a will, Elinor made sure that a suitable amount of money was given to Mary.
* KissingCousins: Though not related by blood, Elinor is the daughter of Laura Welman's brother, while Roddy was the nephew of her late husband, and the two were raised as cousins. Roddy lampshades this by pointing out that they have all the advantages of being cousins without the potential downsides of a blood relationship.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The revelation that Mary isn't actually Gerrard's daughter. [[spoiler: Followed by the revelation that she ''is'' Mrs. Welman's daughter. And that the nurse is actually Mary's aunt.]]
* MercyKill: One potential motive given for why Elinor might have killed her aunt; she knew that her aunt wouldn't have wanted to live crippled by the second stroke.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Elinor is suspected of this.
* PullTheThread: Poirot is set on the right path when a character tells a seemingly pointless lie
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Roddy's reaction to meeting up with Mary Gerrard.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Elinor and Roddy.
* IGaveMyWord: Elinor promised her aunt Laura that she would see to it that a provision was made for Mary Gerrard in Laura's will. When Aunt Laura died before she could write a will, Elinor made sure that a suitable amount of money was given to Mary.
* KissingCousins: Though not related by blood, Elinor is the daughter of Laura Welman's brother, while Roddy was the nephew of her late husband, and the two were raised as cousins. Roddy lampshades this by pointing out that they have all the advantages of being cousins without the potential downsides of a blood relationship.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The revelation that Mary isn't actually Gerrard's daughter. [[spoiler: Followed by the revelation that she ''is'' Mrs. Welman's daughter. And that the nurse is actually Mary's aunt.]]
* MercyKill: One potential motive given for why Elinor might have killed her aunt; she knew that her aunt wouldn't have wanted to live crippled by the second stroke.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Elinor is suspected of this.
* PullTheThread: Poirot is set on the right path when a character tells a seemingly pointless lie
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Roddy's reaction to meeting up with Mary Gerrard.
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