# Poirot "Double Sin"--previous dramatizations? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poirot-double-sin-previous-dramatizations/627799 "2012-07-10T15:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poirot-double-sin-previous-dramatizations/627799/1 "2012-07-10T15:49:28Z")
My wife and I are slowly working our way through the delightful **Poirot** TV series, starring David Suchet. Last night we watched _Double Sin_, but had a nagging feeling of familiarity; we wondered if we had seen a different dramatization of the same basic story. The story: Poirot and Hastings, on a bus trip north, make the acquaintance of a young girl who is couriering a set of valuable cameos to a prospective buyer. They arrive, and the girl announces that the cameos are missing from her suitcase! The buyer is found, and he says that he just purchased the cameos, apparently from the thief! It develops that the owner of the cameos, in cahoots with the courier, faked their theft and sold the cameos to the buyer posing as the thief, hoping to end up with the money and the cameos, reclaimed as stolen property. Subplots include the red herring of a novelist secretly eloping with an aristocratic lady, and Poirot secretly watching a lecture on detection by Inspector Japp, with results gratifying to his vanity. So the question is, has that story ever been filmed with a different cast? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poirot-double-sin-previous-dramatizations/627799/2 "2012-07-10T23:41:07Z")
Not that I’m aware. Perhaps you’re confusing it with another of Christie’s Poirot short stories which has also been filmed with David Suchet and which has a plot with a similar theme:[spoiler]i.e. the theft of valuable goods is faked by the criminal, who can then cash in on the proceeds. [The Million Dollar Bond Robbery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poirot_Investigates#The_Million_Dollar_Bond_Robbery)[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poirot-double-sin-previous-dramatizations/627799/3 "2012-07-11T14:24:12Z")
Don’t think so; both the wife and I remembered the cameos. I suppose it’s possible we’d seen that very same dramatization long enough ago that most of the details had faded, giving us deja vu. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poirot-double-sin-previous-dramatizations/627799/4 "2012-07-11T14:48:36Z")
It’s likely to have been filmed at least one other time, since (according to this source) twelve actors have played Hercule Poirot: [http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question50183.html](http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question50183.html) Maybe this will jog your memory? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poirot-double-sin-previous-dramatizations/627799/5 "2012-07-11T14:57:55Z")
FWIW, here’s Wiki’s entry on the topic: > **[Hercule Poirot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot)** > > Hercule Poirot (UK: /ˈɛərkjuːl ˈpwɑːroʊ/, US: /hɜːrˈkjuːl pwɑːˈroʊ/) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. > Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randa...