Flewitt

Flewitt is a non-canonical character created for the 1982 film Evil Under the Sun. He is an official of the London Trojan Insurance Company. At the beginning of the film, he asks Poirot for news about a case his company had asked Poirot to investigate. It had been pending for some four months and he hoped for some good news. Poirot told him that unfortunately this was a case that the insurance company would have to "laugh and lunp it". We are not told what case this is but it could be the Alice Corrigan case which involved a large insurance claim.

Flewitt pays Poirot 100 guineas in expenses and then asks Poirot to look at a diamond. It is clearly a fake yet the millionaire Horace Blatt had asked to insure it for 50,000 pounds. Why should a person so well-off perpetuate such an obvious fraud when he knew the jewel must be examined? Flewitt asks Poirot to go to the south of France where Blatt is on board his yacht Jolly Roger to investigate the case.

Flewitt is portrayed by Richard Vernon. Flewitt also has an unnamed secretary portrayed by Barbara Hicks, who later portrayed Amanda Hartnell in BBC's Miss Marple.