Poirot: 202 The Veiled Lady (1990)

Title: Poirot: 202 The Veiled Lady (1990)
Airdate and time AU: Monday 30 March 2009 at 1230pm (Noon + 30 minutes)
Original airdate UK: 14 January 1990
Network AU: ABC1, ABC HD
Network US: ITV

Synopsis: Poirot is bored with the lack of interesting cases which come his way, telling Hastings that the criminals of England fear him too much and he dismisses the suggestion that most of them don't even know that he exists. Hastings remembers a recent matter in which a jeweller's shop window in Bond Street was broken and a perpetrator, despite being quickly arrested, only having paste copies of the six stolen stones on him, he having immediately passed the real jewels onto an accomplice. He suggests this as a case of interest but Poirot feels that although the matter was well-planned, it was not of real interest. It is then that they receive a visitor: heavily-veiled she reveals that she is Lady Millicent Castle Vaughan whose engagement to the Duke of Southshire has recently been announced.

Cast: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Arthur Hastings, Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp, Pauline Moran as Miss Felicity Lemon

Guest cast: Frances Barber (as Lady Millicent Castle-Vaughan), Terence Harvey (as Mr Lavington), Carole Hayman (as Mrs Godber), Tony Stephens (as Sergeant), Don Williams (as Constable), Lloyd McGuire (as Museum Guard), Peter Geddis (as Museum Guard), British Concert Winds (as Brass Band)

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