Poirot

The last season of 50-minute episodes brings eight short stories. Poirot and Hastings go to Egypt to look into deaths tied to the opening of a tomb, a businessman is attacked at home, a yellow flower marks a dinner with a dark memory, an inheritance hinges on a puzzle and an Italian nobleman dies in his own flat. In The Chocolate Box, Poirot tells Japp about a case from his police days in Brussels, early in the century, that he remembers as a failure. The season closes with Hastings and Poirot at a luxury hotel in Brighton, dealing with a stolen pearl necklace.

1. ReferenceYoung Poirot in Brussels

   The Chocolate Box goes back to the early 1900s, when Poirot was still a policeman in Belgium. It's the case he tells as one of his failures.

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2. Behind the scenesThe last batch of short episodes

   This is the last series of roughly 50-minute episodes. From series 6 on, every case runs feature length, about 95 minutes.

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3. ReferenceThe Yellow Iris became a novel

   Christie reworked the plot of the short story The Yellow Iris into the novel Sparkling Cyanide (1945), minus Poirot.

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