Crooked House Ending, Explained: Who Killed Aristide Leonides?

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Sophia thinks that the insulin injection was laced with an agent called eserine, which was present in Aristide’s eye drops. As Charles’ rigorous interrogation of the Leonides family members helps him deduce, anyone can be the killer. All of them have good motives to kill the patriarch of the family since they seek to inherit some of the immense wealth of Aristide. Her nanny prepares hot chocolate for her and dies after Josephine refuses it and she drinks it herself.

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As Charles conducts his investigation, drawn further and further into this battle of wills over the actual will, he’s aided by the precocious Josephine, scribbling in a notebook, imagining him as Watson to her Holmes. And then there’s the grande dame, Lady Edith (Glenn Close), a shotgun-wielding aunt who pops up every now and again to elucidate some themes with glorious double entendres. Agatha Christie is having a moment, which is a very good thing when the filmed adaptations are as juicy and twisty as Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s “Crooked House,” starring Max Irons, tangling with a matriarchy of man-eaters in postwar Britain. The French director teams with writers Julian Fellowes and Tim Rose Price, as well as cinematographer Sebastian Winterø, for this gorgeous adaptation trafficking in the delightfully wicked dirty laundry of the landed gentry.

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All the family members had motive and opportunity, none has an alibi; and each of them knew that Aristide's eye medicine was poisonous as he had told all the family after being asked by Josephine. According to the will, they all stand to gain a healthy bequest from the old man's estate. The servants do not get bequests but would lose their (increasing) annual wages or bonuses, so are not suspects.

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For instance, she does not tell Charles about the second will even after being aware of it. Moreover, Aristide was funding anti-communist extremist organizations in Greece to wage a civil war in his home country. Quite possibly an international spy, Sophia may be forced to kill her grandfather under the direction of an external agent. Later still, Josephine divulges to Charles that Brenda is having a fling with the private tutor Mr. Brown.

A casino dancer of humble background, her case certainly looks less and less compelling to Charles. She may have been disgusted by Aristide and his family’s aristocratic vanities and sought to usurp the wealth for herself. But as Eustace suggests, Brenda is far too meek to pull off such a trick.

As the novel ends, the surviving Leonides family members take their leave of the crooked house. Aristide's elder son, Philip, hated his father for passing him over as successor to the family business, and for refusing to fund production of a screenplay he wrote for his wife, Magda, a fading theatre actress. Their children (Aristide's grandchildren) are Sophia, Eustace (a teenager affected by polio), and Josephine, a clever 12-year-old who knows everyone's business. Richard Nixon, a self-made, and self-corrupted, man who studied geopolitics and government assiduously, never achieved such a broad subjugation of American values and institutions. Trump, the ignorant, n’er-do-well heir to his father’s crooked fortune, has achieved so much more. Trump hasn’t just captured the trenches of conservative America, he has taken the commanding heights.

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She poisoned Nanny for encouraging Magda to send her to Switzerland, and also because Nanny called her a "silly little girl". She also included threats against Magda if her mother seriously considered sending her away. Miss de Haviland had discovered Josephine's notebook hidden in a dog kennel, and committed the murder-suicide car crash as she did not want Josephine to suffer in a prison or asylum if and when the police learned she was the murderer. French filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner adapts the eponymous Agatha Christie novel for the screen in the 2017 movie ‘Crooked House,’ an enthralling mystery-suspense drama film fraught with lies, vanity, and betrayal. As private detective Charles Hayward takes up a damning case, the whodunit story plunges the audience into a bitter feud in an aristocratic family. Charles finds out that no one can be excluded from suspicion, but as it often happens in detective stories, the killer turns out to be someone nobody would suspect.

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Edith de Haviland, Aristide's unmarried sister-in-law, is a brusque woman in her 70s who came to stay with him after his first wife's death to supervise his children's upbringing. Roger, the eldest son and Aristide's favourite, is a failure as a businessman. He has steered the catering business bestowed to him by his father to the brink of bankruptcy and he longs to live a simple life somewhere far away. Roger's wife Clemency, a scientist with austere and unsentimental tastes, has never been able to enjoy the wealth offered by her husband's family. Roger's younger brother, Philip, has suffered under his father's preference for Roger, and retreated into a distant world of books and bygone historical epochs, spending all his waking hours in the library. Philip's wife Magda is an only moderately successful actress to whom everything, even a family murder, is a stage show in which she wants to play a leading part.

Many stories have emerged, sharing sometimes very personal connections with what was once dubbed the UK's "wonkiest" pub. On the contrary, most of the estate and the business will now belong to Sophia, as stated in the second signed version of Aristide’s will. A generous allowance would be allocated for Brenda, while the other family members would not get a penny. With the saddening conjecture, Roger and Clemency leave for Barbados for good, while Philip and Magda presumably get the money needed for their project, ‘Exposure,’ from their daughter. Now certain that a killer is still at large at Three Gables, Charles warns Josephine that her life might be in danger. Edith interrupts their conversation to take her great-niece into town for a soda.