IntroductionThis is a story of shaitanas murder tooked place at his home & a mystery that how mr.poirot is able to solve it .

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Shaitana met once mr. Pairot in a snuff boxex exhibition as he is the man who is described as devil like appearance & manner . shaitana arranges a dinner party at his house to show of his collection . as on the arrival on pairot , shaitana jokes & claims that he has a better collection that pairot would enjoy : individuals who have got away with murder . upon arrival on diner , pairot is joined by three other guests : ariadne oliver , Scotland yards supritendent battle & colonal race . soon the other four guest joins them : dr. Roberts, mrs. Lorrimer, major john despard: an army man & annes . Having brought them all to dinner, shaitana skilfully manipulates the topic of conversation to possible motives for murder . shaitana invites his eight guest to play the brigde . he is the odd man out who does not play . in the 1st room, 4 members : Roberts, despard, lorrimer & Meredith to play & in the next room adjoining to it the other ones are going to play . shaitana settles himself to chair & thinks of how his party going well . after playing for couple of hours Mr. Pairot & other member gets up to thank shaitana but they found him dead on his chair . shaitana has been murdered with the jewel stiletto; says mr.oliver . Before going for a police , all person sitting next room including mr. Pairot makes a decision to solve the murder mystery . They all 4 get ready to solve the case & interview all 4 suspects who were sitting in the next room . pairot takes interest in the way how each member played the game which he discuss by asking to grade the play of others . as they found difficult to solve the case , they plan out to solve by taking time separately for each suspect . Battle is put on the trail of the death of mrs. Craddock whom mr. Roberts has once attended . her husband died of anthrax poisioning from an infected shaving brush . mrs. Craddock herself had died not long afterward . Race seeks out information on despard, and discover a case of which is botanished named luxmore, & his wife travelled with him to south Africa: luxmore officially died of fever but is rumoured that he was shot . mrs. Oliver visits anne Meredith &

her housemate, Rhoda . Rhoda later visits oliver & explains annes bad manners ; anne after her fathers death & before her old friend Rhoda came to her rescue; worked , as a live-in- companion ; one employer, a mrs. Benson, has taken paint-poison from a medicine bottle & died . fellow suspect despard takes an interest in annes welfare , recommending that she retain an attorney . In the meantime, the four of investigating persons gather & compare notes . meanwhile , poirot sets a trap for anne Meredith . when she pays him a call at his request , he shows her to a table on which many packets of the finest silk stockings are pilled up, appearing like carelessly . after anne makes her gift suggestions & leave ,poirot discovers the two pairs of stocking are missing . confirming his suspicion that anne is a thief & seemingly giving weight to his suspicion that she stole from mrs. Benson & killing her when she feared she had been discovered . At this point, Mrs. Lorrimer contacts Poirot with surprising news. She confesses to Shaitana's murder, and explains that she took the stiletto after he mentioned poison as a woman's weapon. Shaitana was right about her, she says; twenty years earlier, she had, she confesses, killed her husband. Poirot objects that Lorrimer's explanation of Shaitana's killing does not match her unflappable personality. Lorrimer thus believes that Meredith is Shaitana's killer, and decided to lie to save the younger woman. She begs Poirot to let her take the blame for the crime: she will die soon anyway, and Anne will be free to live her young life . Poirot is confused by this confession, and fears that there may be more trouble to come. His guess proves correct when Mrs. Lorrimer is found dead the next morning, having apparently committed suicide. Roberts arrived before she was quite dead and attended to her, but she could not be saved. Poirot and Battle race to Anne Meredith's cottage, fearing that she might strike again. Despard, who has been visiting Anne and Rhoda, both of whom fancy him, is a few steps ahead of Poirot and Battle. At Anne's suggestion, Anne and Rhoda are on a boat in a nearby river. Poirot and Battle see Anne suddenly push her friend into the water. Alas for Anne, when she knocks Rhoda into the water, she also falls in herself. Despard rescues anne; rhoda drowns. Poirot gathers Oliver, Battle, Despard, Rhoda, and Roberts at his home, where he makes a surprising announcement: the true murderer of both Shaitana and Mrs. Lorrimer is not Anne, but Dr. Roberts. Poirot brings in a window cleaner who happened to be working outside Mrs. Lorrimer's flat earlier that morning. He testifies that he saw Roberts inject Lorrimer with a syringe; a syringe, Poirot reveals, full of a lethal anesthetic. Battle chimes in that they can bolster any

prosecution with the true story of the deaths of the Craddocks, who died of infections, true, but infections deliberately inflicted on each of them by Roberts. Roberts confesses. Poirot points out that in the third rubber of bridge on the night of Shaitana's murder, a grand slam occurred. This intense play would keep the others focused on the gameRoberts was dummy at that pointwhile Roberts used the opportunity to stab Shaitana. It is also revealed that the "window cleaner" was actually an actor in Poirot's employ, though Poirot brags that he did "witness" Roberts kill Mrs. Lorrimer in his mind's eye. Despard suggests that one of the gathered party murder Poirot, and then watch his ghost come back to solve the crime.

Clues: 1) Pairot got much information from Roberts secretary . 2) Another clues he got from the photography lab . 3) Some from shaitanas room as such from the wall painting, his