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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lucy Angkatell is quite ''special''. The cook remembers her putting a live lobster on the card tray, and she sees nothing wrong with Midge barging into her room at six in the morning to explain how she [[spoiler:stopped Edward from committing suicide.]]

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lucy Angkatell is quite ''special''. The cook butler remembers her putting a live lobster on the card tray, and she sees nothing wrong with Midge barging into her room at six in the morning to explain how she [[spoiler:stopped Edward from committing suicide.]]
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She tells her husband why she did it; she considered killing John Christow and making it look like an accident (but eventually decided against it).


* RiddleForTheAges: It's never really know where Lady Lucy picked up the Mauser .25 Automatic and why she put it in her egg basket, though there is [[TheDitz one possible explanation.]]

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* BadLiar: Veronica inverts the anecdote of her last meeting with John Christow, claiming that he was still desperately in love with her and begged her to divorce her husband and marry him, but she turned him down. Poirot sees through her immediately.



-->'''John:''' If I’m right, a lot of our ideas will be revolutionized — we’ll have to reconsider the whole question of hormone secretion—
-->'''Henrietta:''' You mean that there will be a cure for Ridgeway's Disease? That people won't die?
-->'''John:''' That, incidentally.

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-->'''John:''' If I’m right, a lot of our ideas will be revolutionized — we’ll have to reconsider the whole question of hormone secretion—
-->'''Henrietta:'''
secretion—\\
'''Henrietta:'''
You mean that there will be a cure for Ridgeway's Disease? That people won't die?
-->'''John:'''
die?\\
'''John:'''
That, incidentally.


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* WorthyOpponent: Poirot tells this to [[spoiler:Henrietta]], congratulating [[spoiler:her]] for having led the police on a merry chase, and for almost doing the same to him... almost.
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* OrgyOfEvidence: The victim's last words serve as a trigger for someone to gather up everyone else and obfuscate the investigation by planting deliberately contradicting clues.

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