Mr. Mace is a local pharmacist who sells strychnine to a person he thinks is Alfred Inglethorp. He admits at the inquest that he knows he shouldn’t have done this, since only authorized people are allowed to purchase strychnine. But the townspeople in Styles greatly respect anyone who lives in Emily Inglethorp’s house, so Mr. Mace made an exception.
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Mr. Mace Character Timeline in The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Chapter 5: “It Isn’t Strychnine, Is It?”
...about the case. Eventually, they look down into the street and see a pharmacist named Mr. Mace sprinting toward the building. When he arrives, he frantically asks if Mrs. Inglethorp was poisoned...
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Chapter 6: The Inquest
After Evelyn Howard, the examiner calls Mr. Mace (the pharmacist) to present evidence. He admits to having sold strychnine to Mr. Inglethorp on...
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Hastings sympathizes with Mr. Mace , since it’s well known that everyone in town reveres the people who live at...
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...aren’t the same. However, when the questioner asks where Inglethorp was on the day that Mr. Mace says he bought the strychnine, he can’t answer—he doesn’t remember. He was out walking, but...
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Chapter 7: Poirot Pays His Debts
Poirot doesn’t think Alfred Inglethorp actually bought strychnine from Mr. Mace . After all, Mr. Mace is relatively new in town, having only been in the...
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...are, Poirot asks Alfred once more to say where he was on Monday afternoon (when Mr. Mace claims to have sold him strychnine). But Alfred refuses, saying he can’t bring himself to...
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Chapter 10: The Arrest
...case, he says. There was the strychnine in Mrs. Inglethorp’s tonic, the strychnine sold by Mr. Mace , and now the strychnine with Lawrence’s fingerprints. The poison’s abundance throughout the case seems...
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Chapter 11: The Case for the Prosecution
As witnesses are called to the stand, it emerges that the same vial of strychnine Mr. Mace sold to the person he thought was Mr. Inglethorp was later found by Jimmy Japp...
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