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Dumb Witness: Directed by Edward Bennett. With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Ann Morrish, Patrick Ryecart. An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 July 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client.
Detective Hercule Poirot alights at Lake Windemere, a placid resort town, for a weekend of relaxation with friend Charles Arundel and his extended family. When Arundel's beloved aunt Emily is found murdered, Poirot looks to her canine companion for help, convinced that the dog is the only one...
Dumb Witness is the fourth episode of series six of Agatha Christie's Poirot. It was broadcast on 16 March 1996. The feature-length episode is an adaptation of the Christie novel of the same name. It was dramatised by Douglas Watkinson and directed by Edward Bennett.
Inspector Poirot believes a dog can help solve the murder of a friend's aunt.
Poirot is certain there is a witness to the crime - Emily Arundel's dog, Bob - but how Poirot's new four-legged friend can help is something even the great detective cannot as yet fathom. — garykmcd. Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings attend an event at a lake in the country.
Based on a short story Agatha Christie wrote called "The Incident of the Dog's Ball" Emily Arundell, a wealthy spinster with a group of young relatives with 'expectations'...is injured after falling down the staircase at her home Little Green House.
