{"id":8198,"date":"2013-04-20T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2013-04-20T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T21:32:09","slug":"telfilm-review-dumb-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/telfilm-review-dumb-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Telfilm Review: Dumb Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=adamsblog03-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B000TVS5XY\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dumb Witness was the last episode of the sixth series of Poirot and the series went on a four year hiatus afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Poriot receives an urgent letter from a woman who fears she will be murderered by her family. Poirot goes to the scene and advises her to make a change to her will. She ends up dying apparently of natural causes, but there&#8217;s some suspicious circumstances as two old ladies think there was a supernatural origin. And Poirot finds that the old women&#8217;s dog is the key witness in the case.<\/p>\n<p>This was probably my least favorite Poirot mystery of what was a solid sixth series. The Novel <i>Dumb Witness<\/i> was an expanded version of a short story called, &#8220;The Incident of the Dog&#8217;s Ball.&#8221; The short story actually works quite well, but this expansion really felt like it just made the story drag on rather than adding true meat to it.<\/p>\n<p>However, it must be said that David Suchet turned in a good performance as Poirot in an otherwise\u00a0forgettable\u00a0adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3.75 out of 5.0<\/p>\n<p><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I<\/em>f<em>\u00a0you enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your Kindle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumb Witness was the last episode of the sixth series of Poirot and the series went on a four year hiatus afterwards. 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