The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook

THE ADVENTURE OF THE CLAPHAM COOK
1- Answer these questions

Captain Hastings and Poirot were reading thenewspaper the headline “Absconding Bank Clerk Disappears with Fifty Thousand Pounds’ Worth of negotiable Securities” when a woman called Mrs Todd came to Poirot’s house requiring his services. Her problemwas that her cook, Eliza, had gone.
At the beginning he was not interested in the case and he told her that he was a private detective, and he didn´t touch that particular kind of business, but hechanged his mind when he realized that it was very important for her to find her cook.

In the newspapers Poirot advertised a phrase that made Eliza go to his house. There she told him that she lefther place of employment because that night, near Mrs Todd’s a beard Australian lawyer had shown her a letter from Melbourne saying she had inherited a house in Carlisle, Cumberland and a considerablesum of money, but she might be taking possession of the house immediately. He advised her to get the station at this moment to catch the train. There she wrote a letter to Mrs Todd explaining thefacts and gave it to the lawyer. Eliza thought Missus was angry because she sent up her things in paper parcels, keeping her trunk.

When she finished telling the whole story Poirot solved the case.Someone needed the trunk, and also needed the cook out of his way for a long time. The answer was in Mrs Todd’s paying guest Mr Simpson. He worked in the same bank as the absconding bank clerk calledDavis. Mr Simpson was the thief; he murdered Mr Davis, disposed his body in the trunk and sent it anywhere. But he didn´t escaped, he was discovered on the Olympia, en route to America.
Poirotframed Mrs Todd’s cheque to remember him never to despise the trivial, the undignified. A disappearing domestic at one end, a cold-blooded murder at the other.
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