 Poirot soon finds himself drawn into the life of the Blunt family, where two attempts are made on Blunt himself; the second is thwarted by Raikes.The culprit is found to be Carter - he had obtained a job as a gardener at the house under a false identity and is found with a gun in his possession, identical to the one that killed Morley.Agnes Fletcher, Morley's maid, later admits to Poirot that she saw Carter on the stairs to the dentist's office before Morley's death.