The British Prime Minister is kidnapped and Hercule Poirot is hired, specifically to locate and assist in his rescue.
Poirot however has a strict timetable within which to undertake this herculean task that of 32 hours and a quarter.
Why the need for haste?
The Prime Minister is due to give a key note speach at a, European Conference to hopefully deter any prospect of German rearmament.
Poirot has more than the intricacies of the case in front of him to contend with, nor the time limits but to have his every footstep dogged.
By two self important individuals, Sir Bernard Dodger of the Foreign Office and Major Norman.
Who insisted on questioning his every move, even Chief Inspector Japp gets perpetually jittery over his pension.
I have only recently bothered to start watching these ITV interpretations, of the Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot stories.
The only other characterisations that I have seen of Poirot is on the silver screen, that of Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov.
Each in their own way endeavouring to portray the characters every foible, and succeeding at least in part.
As I am yet to actually read a Hercule Poirot story I have absolutely no idea, whatsoever of how accurate their interpretations are.
Or indeed quite how close David Suchet, managed to get to perfection.
Personally that does not matter one iota really its all in the interpretation yes of the main man so to speak, but much more than that.
It is the encapsulating of the period the details, that help to make up the whole picture. The buildings, cars and vehicles in the general, the clothes, the elements that help to capture the entire embience of the period.
Its all there in these depictions all the, attention to the slightest detail. That more than helps this show to be the success, it so richly deserves to be.
Poirot however has a strict timetable within which to undertake this herculean task that of 32 hours and a quarter.
Why the need for haste?
The Prime Minister is due to give a key note speach at a, European Conference to hopefully deter any prospect of German rearmament.
Poirot has more than the intricacies of the case in front of him to contend with, nor the time limits but to have his every footstep dogged.
By two self important individuals, Sir Bernard Dodger of the Foreign Office and Major Norman.
Who insisted on questioning his every move, even Chief Inspector Japp gets perpetually jittery over his pension.
I have only recently bothered to start watching these ITV interpretations, of the Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot stories.
The only other characterisations that I have seen of Poirot is on the silver screen, that of Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov.
Each in their own way endeavouring to portray the characters every foible, and succeeding at least in part.
As I am yet to actually read a Hercule Poirot story I have absolutely no idea, whatsoever of how accurate their interpretations are.
Or indeed quite how close David Suchet, managed to get to perfection.
Personally that does not matter one iota really its all in the interpretation yes of the main man so to speak, but much more than that.
It is the encapsulating of the period the details, that help to make up the whole picture. The buildings, cars and vehicles in the general, the clothes, the elements that help to capture the entire embience of the period.
Its all there in these depictions all the, attention to the slightest detail. That more than helps this show to be the success, it so richly deserves to be.