Story about Poirot：Mrs McGinty's Dead / 大侦探波洛之清洁女工之死 / 清洁女工之死
A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman,...
A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
James Bentley is tried for the murder of Abigail McGinty, the charwoman of Broadhinny who also took in Bentley as her lodger. The evidence is overwhelming, and soon after he is sentenced to hang. Superintendent Spence is not convinced of the man's guilt, and so he visits Poirot, asking him to look into the case. Poirot then heads off to the village, where he becomes the paying guest of Maureen and Major Johnnie Summerhayes. Ariadne Oliver, Poirot's novelist friend, has also come to Broadhinny to collaborate on a stage adaptation of one of her novels with dramatist Robin Upward. With the clue of a bottle of ink purchased by the dead woman shortly before her death, Poirot searches Mr. McGinty's belongings and finds an edition of The Sunday Comet newspaper, where an article concerning two women connected with famous murder has been cut out. With the story are two photographs of the women. Poirot discover that Mr. McGinty had seen one of the photographs before, and knew to whom it ...
