Details

Release year: 1991

Storyline

Poirot and Hastings attend the Victory Ball, a popular costume party. During the festivities, one of the guests is found stabbed to death, and another succumbs to a drug overdose the next day.

Top credits

Directors

Renny Rye

Writers

Cast

David Suchet — Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser — Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson — Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran — Miss Lemon

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Did you know

• The exterior of the BBC (Radio) building, and the foyer area, were the real BBC Broadcasting House building, shot in the 1990s, before the building of the New Broadcasting House extension 20 years later.

• Meissen is a city located near Dresden, Germany. Both of these German cities are world famous for the manufacture of exquisite porcelain-ware.

• This story can be found in a couple of collections of short stories written by Agatha Christie; "Poirot's Early Cases" and "The Underdog and Other Stories".