Said newspaper contains photos of four people with criminal pasts, and these photos may prove instrumental in solving the crime... TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The paper has a Where Are They Now featuring two women who, many years earlier, … Two photographs had been removed, but Poirot tracks down a full edition. Poirot figures out that a man committed the crime because of this, Robin is revealed to have killed his adoptive mother, Mrs Upward, he thinks Poirot is about to attack him with a sugar hammer. Internet Service Terms Poirot insinuates that Mrs Summerhayes committed the crimes, Poirot pulls one against Robin Upward to trick him into letting his guard down, by insinuating that Mrs Summerhayes committed the crimes, as Robin had planned, Robin Upward tries to frame Mrs Summerhayes by planting a photo of Eva Kane among her belongings. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/MrsMcGintysDead. All rights reserved. S11, E1: Mrs McGinty was killed by a brutal blow to the head, and her lodger James Bentley (Joe Absolom – Vincent) is sentenced to hang for the murder. Mrs McGinty's Dead is a 1952 mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Support, Available on iTunes, BritBox, Prime Video. Mrs. McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. The cast also includes Amanda Root (The Forsyte Saga), Paul Rhys (Vincent & Theo), Simon Shepherd (Warriors) and Siân Phillips (Ivanhoe). Poirot (David Suchet) takes on his toughest challenge yet as he races to prove a convicted killer is innocent. Poirot decides to investigate in the village of Broadhinny, where Mrs McGinty and James Bentley lived, and in doing so, he stumbles across an old newspaper. While searching through her belongings, Poirot finds an edition of a newspaper dated not long before the woman's death. However, Poirot had searched the desk it was kept in earlier and had not found the photo, so he knew it was planted, Robin plants blatant evidence to suggest that the murder of Mrs Upward was committed by a woman. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Mrs. McGinty's Dead. Hercule Poirot decides to take on the murder case of an old charwoman, Mrs McGinty, as a favor to his friend Superintendent Spence, who is not convinced that the person accused, James Bentley, is guilty of the crime. "Poirot" Mrs McGinty's Dead (TV Episode 2008) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). The Detective Book Club issued an edition, also in 1952, as Blood Will Tell. James Bentley is arrested for the murder of old Mrs McGinty. Apple Inc. Superintendent Spence (Richard Hope – The Shellseekers) is convinced the evidence was just too obvious and asks his old friend Hercule Poirot to investigate. Mrs McGinty's Dead is a 1952 mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Copyright © 2020 Apple TV & Privacy Hercule Poirot decides to take on the murder case of an old charwoman, Mrs McGinty, as a favor to his friend Superintendent Spence, who is not convinced that the person accused, James Bentley, is guilty of the crime. Cookie Warning It looks like an open and shut case, but Superintendent Spence is not convinced. Mrs. McGinty did housekeeping work in the village, so she had access to several homes. As Poirot joins forces with famed crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (Zoë Wanamaker – My Family) to save Bentley from the gallows, he doesn’t realise his own life is in danger. Available on BritBox, Prime Video Poirot (David Suchet) takes on his toughest challenge yet as he races to prove a convicted killer is innocent.