Agatha Christie's Poirot1989

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District Judge:
James Gordon Bentley, you have been tried for murder. Abigail McGinty was found by the baker on the floor of the sitting-room with extensive wounds to the head. The house in Broadhinny evinced no sign of forced entry. All the police surgeon was able to ascertain was that she'd been hit with a sharp, heavy implement, probably some time the night before. You, Bentley, were suspected from the very beginning. You knew where she kept her money; you had recently lost your employment, and then the investigating officer, Superintendent Spence, found sixty pounds in legal tender under a stone by the garden path. So you had the motive, and you had the opportunity.