Double Sin

Episode aired Feb 11, 1990
TV-14
51m

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7.5/10

1.7K

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Hugh Fraser and David Suchet in Poirot (1989)

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Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

The theft of a collection of antique miniatures draws Poirot out of retirement.The theft of a collection of antique miniatures draws Poirot out of retirement.The theft of a collection of antique miniatures draws Poirot out of retirement.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.7K

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Trivia
This takes place partly in the Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire, England opened in 1933. Restored in 2008. It is built in the style of Art Deco / Streamline Moderne.

Goofs
When Hastings gets out of the Police car after the crash it's easy to see from the remains of the five-bar gate that the timber has been sawn through at a 45 degree diagonal to enable it to easily break when the car hits it.

Quotes
[Poirot spies on Japp]
Chief Inspector Japp: [giving a speech] The professional private detective, ladies and gentlemen, is not the glamorous figure of fiction. He is a man who, failing in more worthy walks of life and being of meddlesome and troublemaking disposition, finally comes to rest in a dingy office over the chip shop, where he plies for hire in the sordid world of petty crime and divorce.
[a shamed Poriot prepares to leave...]
Chief Inspector Japp: Except, I have to say, for one. I have been fortunate in my career, in that many - in fact most of my cases have been shared with the most extraordinary of private detectives and, if I may borrow a word from his own native tongue, that doyen of the Belgian police force, Monsieur Hercule Poirot. I think I may say without fear of contradiction that Hercule Poirot has one of the most original minds of the 20th century. Intelligent, brave, sensitive, devastatingly quick, Hercule Poirot stands head and shoulders above any other detective of my considerable experience.
[a pleased Poirot bows and leaves]

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5/10

Double Sin

A few years after this episode was made, I once got a job that covered the north Lancashire area. This meant dealing with a host of complaints relating to the famous art deco The Midland Hotel in Morecambe. Wonderful to see from the outside, inside some of the rooms were dirty, dinghy and disgusting.

The exterior of the Midland Hotel is prominently featured in this episode as Poirot goes up north to the seaside with Hastings and then to the Lake District area. It just happens that Inspector Japp is also there on various speaking engagements about his life dealing with crime.

On the bus trip Hastings bumps into a man in a rush and a rather dim woman carrying a set of 12 valuable Napolean miniatures that she intends to sell on behalf of her invalid aunt. When the paintings go missing Hastings goes to investigate, Poirot takes a more laid back approach.

I thought this one was easy to figure and it did not always make sense. Writer Clive Exton might been overstretched with Christie's plotting. The best bit was Poirot's face as Japp talks about private investigators and amateur sleuths in his talk.