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* [[Framing the Guilty Party]]: Alfred Inglethorp sets out a bunch of false clues incriminating himself in the hopes that he will be arrested and tried, at which point he can easily refute the false evidence. Once acquitted, he will then be unable to be tried again due to double jeopardy, even if proof of his guilt turns up later. Poirot foils this plan by refusing to allow Inglethorp's arrest until he has true evidence of his guilt.

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Alfred Inglethorp and Evie Howard.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Alfred Inglethorp is seen as this. Of course, to the [[Genre Savvy]] reader that's a clue that he could not possibly have done it, then he displays evidence that he didn't do it, and then the even savvier Poirot finds out that [[It's a Long Story|he did it after all]].

* [[Perfect Poison]]: Subverted.

{{quote| ''Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style.''}}

* [[The Watson]]: Hastings.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: To be fair to [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Mary]], John ''was'' having an affair. (In the adaptation, this was changed to a misunderstanding: he was visiting the other woman to give her a loan.)

 

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