The Affair at the Victory Ball
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.
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"Poirot and Captain Hastings are supposed to attend a charity masquerade party. The theme is 'famous people'...so the conceited Poirot goes as himself! And, just as you would expect, someone at this party is killed...found dead with a case knife plunged into his chest! And, to confuse things, one of the dead man's lady friends is found dead the next day from an overdose of cocaine*. The style of this episode is very much like a 1930s B-mystery movie from the States. This is NOT a complaint...more an observation. This is especially true at the end, when Poirot brings back all the..."
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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.
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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.