Hello, and welcome to another episode nostalgic mystery radio on your host, Stevie K.

And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

For this episode, I bring you, Agatha Christie's Hercules Perrault, episode title,

Three Act Tragedy.

We're at an apparently respectable dinner party of Vickers the first to die.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

To reconstruct the crime, that is the aim of the detective. To reconstruct a crime, you must place one fact upon another, just as you place one card upon another in building a house of cards. If the facts do not fit, if the cards will not balance, you must start your house again, or else it will fall. We present John Moffat as Urquil Poirot and George Cole as Mr. Satathwaite in Agatha Christie's three-act tragedy.

The story. three-act tragedy. The strange story which I came to regard as a three-act tragedy

began at Crow's Nest.

A large bungalow perched high upon a cliff above Loomuth,

where the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright

was giving a weekend party. Two of his guests had already arrived, and were sitting on the

terrace overlooking the sea. Just to look at him, stumping his way up the fisherman's path, old grey flannel trousers,

white sweater, peaked cap, the very model of a retired naval man. He's even got the rolling

nautical gate. It's perfect, quite perfect. I would never have believed that he'd have

stayed down here for so long, in exile, so to speak.

Well, no more would I, but he's always been a better actor in private life than on the stage.

I've known him since he was a boy. We went up to Oxford together.

He's never stopped acting. Not for a moment.

Second nature, I suppose, Barthoromew? Yes, Charles doesn't go out of a room,

he makes an exit, and he usually gives himself a good line to make it on. All the same,

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