Avery puts a sheet over her head, pretending to be a ghost to frighten Emily.

As can be witnessed in a performance of that work by Fleisher, it is indeed a dazzling display piece in which, if it is only heard and not seen, its one-handedness might evade listeners' notice.

John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.

While generally restraining himself from the Poirotesque habit of assembling rooms full of suspects to heighten the sense of theatre at the denouement of a case, he would occasionally milk a scene.