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In the novella The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, Commander Jock McLaren is a childhood friend of Margharita Clayton. He has always been in love with her, even after her marriage to Arnold Clayton. Marguerita knows all about his feelings. She tells Poirot it has become somewhat of a habit and he had basically devoted himself to her service.

Jock McLaren is a reworking if the character Major Curtiss from The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest, the short story from which the novella was expanded.

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