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* TheWoobie: Kirsten leaves her home to work as a maid/cook in a lavish mansion where she finally gets her own room. She gets on with her mistress and the children, only to have the master of the house rape her. She gets pregnant (which luckily she is not blamed for) and the mistress schemes to let her keep the baby by raising him as her adopted son. But she has to live with her rapist employer who [[spoiler: eventually frames their son for murdering his wife and has him beaten to death in prison when the son threatens to expose him.]]
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* TheWoobie: In the 2018 miniseries, Kirsten leaves her home to work as a maid/cook in a lavish mansion where she finally gets her own room. She gets on with her mistress and the children, only to have the master of the house rape her. She gets pregnant (which luckily she is not blamed for) and the mistress schemes to let her keep the baby by raising him as her adopted son. But she has to live with her rapist employer who [[spoiler: eventually frames their son for murdering his wife and has him beaten to death in prison when the son threatens to expose him.]]
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** [[NotBloodSiblings Tina and Micky, adoptive brother and sister]], end up becoming a couple at the end of the book.
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** [[NotBloodSiblings Tina and Micky, adoptive brother and sister]], end up becoming a couple at the end of the book.book.
* TheWoobie: Kirsten leaves her home to work as a maid/cook in a lavish mansion where she finally gets her own room. She gets on with her mistress and the children, only to have the master of the house rape her. She gets pregnant (which luckily she is not blamed for) and the mistress schemes to let her keep the baby by raising him as her adopted son. But she has to live with her rapist employer who [[spoiler: eventually frames their son for murdering his wife and has him beaten to death in prison when the son threatens to expose him.]]
* TheWoobie: Kirsten leaves her home to work as a maid/cook in a lavish mansion where she finally gets her own room. She gets on with her mistress and the children, only to have the master of the house rape her. She gets pregnant (which luckily she is not blamed for) and the mistress schemes to let her keep the baby by raising him as her adopted son. But she has to live with her rapist employer who [[spoiler: eventually frames their son for murdering his wife and has him beaten to death in prison when the son threatens to expose him.]]
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* CriticalResearchFailure: For the BBC miniseries, not in the series itself but by the [[JustForPun critics]] who reviewed it. Many cited the decision to cast a black actress as Tina as an example of "modernising" Christie, apparently not having read far enough into the novel to learn that that Tina is mixed-race in the source material. (The same reviewers [[FailedASpotCheck failed to note]] that one of the next Christie stories up for adaptation by the Beeb was ''Death Comes As The End'', a historical mystery with an entirely North African cast, which soundly challenges the assumption that Agatha Christie only ever wrote about white European characters.)
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Jacko is the true BigBad, and Calgary's "alibi" for him was in fact arranged. Unfortunately for Jack, Calgary is hit by a car and Jacko winds up arrested for the murder he was responsible for.]]
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He wasn't executed. He died in prison.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Jacko is the true BigBad, and Calgary's "alibi" for him was in fact arranged. Unfortunately for Jack, Calgary is hit by a car and Jacko winds up being executed arrested for the murder he was responsible for.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Jacko is the true BigBad, and Calgary's "alibi" for him was in fact arranged. Unfortunately for Jack, Calgary is hit by a car and Jacko winds up being executed for the murder he was responsible for.]]
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* CriticalResearchFailure: For the BBC miniseries, not in the series itself but by the [[JustForPun critics]] who reviewed it. Many cited the decision to cast a black actress as Tina as an example of "modernising" Christie, apparently not having read far enough into the novel to learn that that Tina is mixed-race in the source material. (The same reviewers [[FailedASpotCheck failed to note]] that one of the next Christie stories up for adaptation by the Beeb was ''Death Comes As The End'', a historical mystery with an entirely North African cast, which soundly challenges the assumption that Agatha Christie only ever wrote about white European characters.)
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** Hester runs into Calgary's arms because he believed in her innocence and her fiancee Dr Craig didn't, even though Craig was willing to look after her whether she was innocent or not. Her impulsiveness may cost her in the future, since she and Calgary are decades apart in age.
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** Hester runs into Calgary's arms because he believed in her innocence and her fiancee Dr Craig didn't, even though Craig was willing to look after her whether she was innocent or not. Her impulsiveness may cost her in the future, since she and Calgary are decades apart in age.age.
**Tina and Micky, adoptive brother and sister, end up becoming a couple at the end of the book.
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* ValuesDissonance: This being a 1950s novel, there are certain elements that may be uncomfortable for today:
** Tina Argyle is described as being the only dark-skinned adopted child of the Argyle family, with her heritage being brought up regularly against her.
** Leo Argyle, a believer in blood and heredity, had some misgivings towards taking in adopted children, feeling that because they weren't his children there wouldn't be any real connection between them. He does his best to be a decent father though.
** Hester runs into Calgary's arms because he believed in her innocence and her fiancee Dr Craig didn't, even though Craig was willing to look after her whether she was innocent or not. Her impulsiveness may cost her in the future, since she and Calgary are decades apart in age.
** Tina Argyle is described as being the only dark-skinned adopted child of the Argyle family, with her heritage being brought up regularly against her.
** Leo Argyle, a believer in blood and heredity, had some misgivings towards taking in adopted children, feeling that because they weren't his children there wouldn't be any real connection between them. He does his best to be a decent father though.
** Hester runs into Calgary's arms because he believed in her innocence and her fiancee Dr Craig didn't, even though Craig was willing to look after her whether she was innocent or not. Her impulsiveness may cost her in the future, since she and Calgary are decades apart in age.
