Appearing here as Inspector Japp, David Suchet played Hercule Poirot in the television series Poirot (1989), including Lord Edgware Dies (2000), another version of this story. In later years, Suchet has often said that his performance as Japp was the worst of his entire career.
Sir Peter Ustinov and David Suchet appeared in Victoria & Albert (2001).
Hastings is reading the March 12, 1985 edition of The Financial Times featuring the headline "Gorbachev is new Soviet leader."