Very good, amusing, and tricky episode.
Poor Hercule, he knows his bank balance to the farthing but the bank clerk insists he's overdrawn. Poirot is furious. On the home front, he and Hastings are playing a vicious monopoly game.
When the head of the bank, Lord Pearson, comes to visit Poirot, Poirot thinks it's to straighten out the incorrect balance deficit. Instead, it's to hire him. A Mr. Wu Ling was due at a bank meeting that morning, but has disappeared. He was to sell the bank a deed to a silver mine.
Unfortunately, when Wu Ling is located, it's too late. He's dead. Poirot now has to find the killer. The killer seems to be Charles Lester, an American, but for Poirot, that's too easy an answer.
This episode reminds us of how people lived and banked in the 1930s. Real people instead of machines at the bank and no television in the home. People talked with each other and played games. Also, there were some interesting locations here, including Chinatown.
Great episode with an obvious clue to the killer that everyone misses.
Poor Hercule, he knows his bank balance to the farthing but the bank clerk insists he's overdrawn. Poirot is furious. On the home front, he and Hastings are playing a vicious monopoly game.
When the head of the bank, Lord Pearson, comes to visit Poirot, Poirot thinks it's to straighten out the incorrect balance deficit. Instead, it's to hire him. A Mr. Wu Ling was due at a bank meeting that morning, but has disappeared. He was to sell the bank a deed to a silver mine.
Unfortunately, when Wu Ling is located, it's too late. He's dead. Poirot now has to find the killer. The killer seems to be Charles Lester, an American, but for Poirot, that's too easy an answer.
This episode reminds us of how people lived and banked in the 1930s. Real people instead of machines at the bank and no television in the home. People talked with each other and played games. Also, there were some interesting locations here, including Chinatown.
Great episode with an obvious clue to the killer that everyone misses.