First broadcast 13th January 1991.

After a bank clerk charged with overseeing a million dollars' worth of American bonds is poisoned, the bank calls in Poirot.

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
David Quilter as Mr Shaw
Ewan Hooper as Mr Vavasour
Paul Young as Mr McNeil
Lizzy McInnerny as Nurse Long & Miranda Brooks
Oliver Parker as Philip Ridgeway
Natalie Ogle as Esmee Dalgleish
Christopher Owen as Chief Purser
Jonathan Stratt as Spivvy Passenger
Dallas Adams as Hood
Kieron Jecchinis as Tom Franklin
Edward Phillips as Flower Seller
Robin Hunter as Police Officer
Richard Bebb as Newsreader (voice)