Other members of The Boynton family tree.Lennox Boynton and his wife Nadine Boynton.The family, free at last, take up happier lives: Sarah marries Raymond Carol marries Jefferson and Ginevra takes up a successful career as a stage actress – she also marries Dr. Lady Westholme, eavesdropping in an adjoining room, overhears that her criminal history is about to be revealed to the world and commits suicide. Disguised as an Arab servant, she had committed the murder and then relied upon the suggestibility of Miss Pierce to lay two pieces of misdirection that had concealed her role in the murder. Boynton had addressed that peculiar threat the temptation to acquire a new subject to torture had been too great for her to resist.

It was to Lady Westholme, and not to Sarah, that Mrs. The murderer is revealed to be Lady Westholme who, prior to her marriage, had been incarcerated in the prison in which the victim was once a warden.

This places the suspicion on one of the outsiders. None of the family would have needed to murder the victim with a hypodermic syringe, since an overdose could have been administered much more effectively in her medicine. Boynton to be dead and, suspecting another family member, failed to report the fact. Poirot then calls for a meeting and explains how each member of the family has, in turn, discovered Mrs. The poison administered to the victim is believed to be digitoxin, something that she already took medicinally. Attention is focused on a hypodermic syringe that has seemingly been stolen from Dr. During these interviews he establishes a timeline that seems impossible: Sarah King places the time of death considerably before the times at which various of the family members claim last to have seen the victim alive. Poirot claims that he can solve the mystery within twenty-four hours simply by interviewing the suspects. Later, she is found dead with a needle puncture in her wrist. Boynton uncharacteristically sends her family away from her for a period. Boynton whose apparent reply is a strange threat: 'I’ve never forgotten anything – not an action, not a name, not a face.' When the party reaches Petra, Mrs.

Having been thwarted in her desire to free the young Boyntons, Sarah confronts Mrs.

Sarah is attracted to Raymond Boynton, while Jefferson Cope admits to wanting to take Nadine Boynton away from her husband, Lennox Boynton, and the influence of her mother-in-law. Mrs Boynton is sadistic and domineering, behaviours which she may have carried over from her original profession of prison warden. The novel opens as the Boynton family are introduced through the perspective of Sarah King and Dr.

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