When Frank Carter clips the laurels, the gun falls and goes off. In the original, a loaded pistol is planted on the laurels. In the shooting incident in Blunt's garden, Helen Montressor takes over Raikes's role. There is no shooting incident outside Downing Street. Howard Raikes does not appear in the adaptation so Jane Olivera has a much smaller role in the plot.As Poirot surmises in the book, the Mabelle who turns up at this second visit is the fake Mabelle. Chapter 1 of the book is actually the second visit to the dentist by Poirot, Alistair etc shown in the adaptation. In the book, this event is narrated by Jane much later. In this first visit, the real Mabelle encounters Alistair at the dentist and Jane Olivera witnesses this. The first is again a preamble and enacts events before chapter 1 in the book. The adaptation shows Poirot, Alistair Blunt etc.The preambular scene in India features a play within a play where Gerda, Mabelle and there repertory put up "Much Ado About Nothing".Mabelle knew them there as she was in the same repertory as Gerda. In the original, Gerda and Alistair never went to India-they met in Oxford. This is set during the time of the durbah of the Prince of Wales, hence 1921, and about 15 years before the events in the book, During this scene, Gerda announces that she and Alistair are to be married. A lengthy preambular sequence depicts Mabelle, Alistair and Gerda while they were in India.In the original, some of the crucial connections are made by Poirot in his mind and the reader has at times little insight into his thought process. There are a number of preambular scenes which set the stage and are probably there to "give an equal chance" to the viewer i.e.The adaptation is fairly faithful to the original novel except for a few small changes.
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