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Fictional detective by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot
First advent	The Mysterious Matter at Styles (1920)
Last appearance	Curtain (1975)
Created by	Agatha Christie
Portrayed by	Charles Laughton Francis L. Sullivan Austin Trevor Orson Welles Harold Huber Richard Williams John Malkovich José Ferrer Martin Gabel Tony Randall Albert Finney Dudley Jones Peter Ustinov Ian Holm David Suchet John Moffatt Maurice Denham Peter Sallis Konstantin Raikin Alfred Molina Robert Powell Jason Durr Kenneth Branagh Shirō Itō (Takashi Akafuji) Mansai Nomura (Takeru Suguro) Tom Conti
Voiced by	Kōtarō Satomi
In-universe information
Full name	Hercule Poirot
Gender	Male
Occupation	Private investigator Police officer (erstwhile occupation)
Family	Jules-Louis Poirot (father) Godelieve Poirot (mother)
Religion	Catholic
Nationality	Belgian
Birth date and place	c. 1873–1883[1] Spa, Wallonia, Belgium
Death date and identify	c. 1972-1975,[2] Styles St. Mary, England

Hercule Poirot (, ^[three]) is a fictional Belgian detective created past British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is 1 of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and more than fifty short stories published between 1920 and 1975.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in picture and on television receiver past diverse actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, and John Malkovich.

Overview [edit]

Influences [edit]

Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the fourth dimension: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.^[iv]

A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle. In An Autobiography, Christie states, "I was even so writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-blazon Scotland One thousand detective, Inspector Japp".^[5] For his part, Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe'due south C. Auguste Dupin and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of "ratiocination" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey cells".

Poirot too bears a hit resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté, who outset appeared in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose and predates the kickoff Poirot novel by 10 years.

Christie'southward Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 and published in 1920. Belgium'southward occupation past Germany during Globe War I provided a plausible explanation of why such a skilled detective would be available to solve mysteries at an English language country house.^[6] At the time of Christie's writing, information technology was considered patriotic to express sympathy towards the Belgians,^[7] since the invasion of their state had constituted Great britain's casus belli for entering Earth War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasised the "Rape of Kingdom of belgium".

Popularity [edit]

Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (published in 1920) and exited in Curtain (published in 1975). Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional graphic symbol to receive an obituary on the forepart page of The New York Times.^{[eight] [nine]}

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot "insufferable", and by 1960 she felt that he was a "detestable, bombastic, tedious, ego-centric picayune creep". Despite this, Poirot remained an exceedingly popular grapheme with the general public. Christie after stated that she refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked.^[10]

Advent and proclivities [edit]

Captain Arthur Hastings's first description of Poirot:

He was inappreciably more than five anxiety four inches just carried himself with nifty dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very potent and military. Even if everything on his face was covered, the tips of moustache and the pink-tipped nose would exist visible. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would take caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandified little human who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his fourth dimension one of the almost celebrated members of the Belgian police.^{[half dozen]}

Agatha Christie's initial description of Poirot in The Murder on the Orient Express:

By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young French lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small human being [Hercule Poirot] deadened upwards to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped olfactory organ and the two points of an upward-curled moustache. ^[eleven]

In the later books, his limp is not mentioned, suggesting it may have been a temporary wartime injury. (In Mantle, Poirot admits he was wounded when he first came to England.) Poirot has green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining "similar a cat's" when he is struck by a clever idea,^[12] and nighttime pilus, which he dyes after in life. In Curtain, he admits to Hastings that he wears a wig and a imitation moustache.^[13] However, in many of his screen incarnations, he is baldheaded or balding.

Frequent mention is made of his patent leather shoes, harm to which is frequently a source of misery for him, but comical for the reader.^[14] Poirot'southward appearance, regarded as fastidious during his early career, afterwards falls hopelessly out of way.^[15]

Among Poirot's most significant personal attributes is the sensitivity of his breadbasket:

The airplane dropped slightly. "Monday estomac," thought Hercule Poirot, and closed his eyes determinedly.^[16]

He suffers from sea sickness,^[17] and, in Death in the Clouds, he states that his air sickness prevents him from being more alarm at the fourth dimension of the murder. Later in his life, nosotros are told:

E'er a man who had taken his stomach seriously, he was reaping his reward in old historic period. Eating was not only a concrete pleasure, it was too an intellectual research.^[16]

Poirot is extremely punctual and carries a pocket watch most to the end of his career.^[xviii] He is also item about his personal finances, preferring to keep a bank balance of 444  pounds, 4 shillings, and 4 pence.^[19] Actor David Suchet, who portrayed Poirot on telly, said "in that location'southward no question he'southward obsessive-compulsive".^[20] Film portrayer Kenneth Branagh said that he "enjoyed finding the sort of obsessive-compulsive" in Poirot.^[21]

As mentioned in Curtain and The Clocks, he is fond of classical music, particularly Mozart and Bach.

Methods [edit]

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based and logical detective; reflected in his vocabulary by 2 common phrases: his apply of "the little gray cells" and "society and method". Hastings is irritated by the fact that Poirot sometimes conceals important details of his plans, as in The Large 4.^[22] In this novel, Hastings is kept in the night throughout the climax. This attribute of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator to mislead.

In Murder on the Links, still largely dependent on clues himself, Poirot mocks a rival "bloodhound" detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues established in detective fiction (e.g., Sherlock Holmes depending on footprints, fingerprints, and cigar ash). From this point on, Poirot establishes his psychological bona fides. Rather than painstakingly examining law-breaking scenes, he enquires into the nature of the victim or the psychology of the murderer. He predicates his deportment in the subsequently novels on his underlying assumption that particular crimes are committed past particular types of people.

Poirot focuses on getting people to talk. In the early novels, he casts himself in the role of "Papa Poirot", a benign confessor, especially to young women. In afterward works, Christie made a point of having Poirot supply imitation or misleading information about himself or his background to assistance him in obtaining information.^[23] In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Poirot speaks of a non-existent mentally disabled nephew^[24] to uncover information near homes for the mentally unfit. In Dumb Witness, Poirot invents an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate local nurses. In The Big Four, Poirot pretends to have (and poses as) an identical twin blood brother named Achille: however, this brother was mentioned again in The Labours of Hercules.^[22]

"If I remember rightly – though my memory isn't what it was – you also had a brother called Achille, did y'all not?" Poirot's mind raced back over the details of Achille Poirot's career. Had all that really happened? "Only for a short infinite of time," he replied.^[25]

Poirot is besides willing to appear more strange or vain in an endeavour to brand people underestimate him. He admits as much:

It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English. But, my friend, to speak the broken English is an enormous asset. It leads people to despise you. They say – a foreigner – he tin't fifty-fifty speak English language properly. ... Likewise I boast! An Englishman he says often, "A boyfriend who thinks as much of himself as that cannot be worth much." ... And then, you see, I put people off their baby-sit.^[26]

He also has a trend to refer to himself in the third person.^{[27] [28]}

In afterward novels, Christie often uses the word mountebank when characters depict Poirot, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a adventurer or fraud.

Poirot'southward investigating techniques assist him solving cases; "For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away..."^[29] At the end, Poirot usually reveals his description of the sequence of events and his deductions to a room of suspects, often leading to the culprit'south apprehension.

Life [edit]

Origins [edit]

Christie was purposely vague nigh Poirot's origins, equally he is idea to be an elderly man even in the early novels. In An Autobiography, she admitted that she already imagined him to be an former homo in 1920. At the time, notwithstanding, she had no thought she would write works featuring him for decades to come.

A cursory passage in The Big Four provides original data about Poirot'due south nascency or at least babyhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: "But we did not become into Spa itself. We left the chief road and wound into the leafy fastnesses of the hills, till we reached a little hamlet and an isolated white villa high on the hillside."^[30] Christie strongly implies that this "placidity retreat in the Ardennes"^[31] almost Spa is the location of the Poirot family unit home.

An alternative tradition holds that Poirot was born in the village of Ellezelles (province of Hainaut, Kingdom of belgium).^[32] A few memorials dedicated to Hercule Poirot tin can be seen in the heart of this hamlet. There appears to be no reference to this in Christie'southward writings, merely the town of Ellezelles cherishes a copy of Poirot's birth certificate in a local memorial 'attesting' Poirot'southward birth, naming his father and mother every bit Jules-Louis Poirot and Godelieve Poirot.

Christie wrote that Poirot is a Catholic by birth,^[33] but not much is described virtually his afterward religious convictions, except sporadic references to his "going to church".^[34] Christie provides little information regarding Poirot'due south childhood, only mentioning in Three Act Tragedy that he comes from a big family with fiddling wealth, and has at least one younger sister. Apart from French and English, Poirot is also fluent in German.^[35]

Policeman [edit]

Gustave ... was non a policeman. I accept dealt with policemen all my life and I know. He could pass as a detective to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself.

— Hercule Poirot Christie 1947c

Hercule Poirot was agile in the Brussels police by 1893. ^[36] Very footling mention is made about this role of his life, simply in "The Nemean Panthera leo" (1939) Poirot refers to a Belgian example of his in which "a wealthy soap manufacturer ... poisoned his wife in social club to be free to ally his secretary". As Poirot was oftentimes misleading most his past to gain data, the truthfulness of that statement is unknown; it does, withal, scare off a would-exist married woman-killer.

In the short story "The Chocolate Box" (1923), Poirot reveals to Captain Arthur Hastings an account of what he considers to exist his merely failure. Poirot admits that he has failed to solve a offense "innumerable" times:

I accept been called in too belatedly. Very often some other, working towards the same goal, has arrived there first. Twice I have been struck down with illness simply as I was on the point of success.

All the same, he regards the 1893 case in "The Chocolate Box",^[37] as his simply actual failure of detection. Again, Poirot is not reliable equally a narrator of his personal history and in that location is no prove that Christie sketched information technology out in whatever depth. During his police career, Poirot shot a man who was firing from a roof into the public below.^[38] In Lord Edgware Dies, Poirot reveals that he learned to read writing upside down during his police career. Around that fourth dimension he met Xavier Bouc, managing director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.

Inspector Japp offers some insight into Poirot'due south career with the Belgian constabulary when introducing him to a colleague:

Yous've heard me speak of Mr Poirot? It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery instance – y'all remember he was run down in Brussels. Ah, those were the days Moosier. Then, exercise you lot remember "Baron" Altara? There was a pretty rogue for you! He eluded the clutches of half the police in Europe. But nosotros nailed him in Antwerp – thanks to Mr. Poirot here.^[39]

In The Double Clue, Poirot mentions that he was Main of Police of Brussels, until "the Great State of war" (Globe War I) forced him to leave for England.

Private detective [edit]

I had called in at my friend Poirot'due south rooms to find him sadly overworked. So much had he go the rage that every rich woman who had mislaid a bracelet or lost a pet kitten rushed to secure the services of the great Hercule Poirot. ^[40]

During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for England as a refugee, although he returned a few times. On xvi July 1916 he again met his lifelong friend, Helm Arthur Hastings, and solved the commencement of his cases to be published, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. It is clear that Hastings and Poirot are already friends when they run into in Chapter 2 of the novel, as Hastings tells Cynthia that he has non seen him for "some years" (Agatha Christie's Poirot has Hastings reveal that they met on a shooting case where Hastings was a doubtable). Particulars such equally the date of 1916 for the case and that Hastings had met Poirot in Kingdom of belgium, are given in Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, Chapter 1. After that instance, Poirot apparently came to the attention of the British hole-and-corner service and undertook cases for the British regime, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister.^[41] Readers were told that the British authorities had learned of Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain members of Kingdom of belgium'due south regal family.

Florin Court became the fictional residence of Agatha Christie'due south Poirot, known as "Whitehaven Mansions"

After the war, Poirot became a private detective and began undertaking noncombatant cases. He moved into what became both his habitation and work address, Flat 203 at 56B Whitehaven Mansions. Hastings first visits the flat when he returns to England in June 1935 from Argentina in The A.B.C. Murders, Chapter 1. The Tv programmes place this in Florin Court, Charterhouse Foursquare, in the incorrect office of London. According to Hastings, information technology was chosen by Poirot "entirely on account of its strict geometrical advent and proportion" and described as the "newest type of service flat". (The Florin Court building was actually built in 1936, decades after Poirot fictionally moved in.) His outset case in this menstruum was "The Thing at the Victory Brawl", which allowed Poirot to enter loftier order and begin his career every bit a private detective.

Between the world wars, Poirot travelled all over Europe, Africa, Asia, and half of South America investigating crimes and solving murders. Virtually of his cases occurred during this time and he was at the height of his powers at this point in his life. In The Murder on the Links, the Belgian pits his grey cells against a French murderer. In the Middle East, he solved the cases Decease on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease and even survived An Appointment with Expiry. Equally he passed through Eastern Europe on his render trip, he solved The Murder on the Orient Limited. Even so, he did non travel to North America, the West Indies, the Caribbean or Oceania, probably to avoid seasickness.

It is this villainous sea that troubles me! The mal de mer – information technology is horrible suffering!^[42]

It was during this time he met the Countess Vera Rossakoff, a glamorous gem thief. The history of the countess is, like Poirot's, steeped in mystery. She claims to have been a member of the Russian elite before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a issue, but how much of that story is true is an open question. Fifty-fifty Poirot acknowledges that Rossakoff offered wildly varying accounts of her early on life. Poirot later became smitten with the adult female and allowed her to escape justice.^[43]

Information technology is the misfortune of modest, precise men e'er to hanker subsequently large and flamboyant women. Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal fascination that the countess held for him.^[44]

Although letting the countess escape was morally questionable, it was not uncommon. In The Nemean Lion, Poirot sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, allowing her to evade prosecution by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who, Poirot discovered, had plans to commit murder. Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby ii hundred pounds every bit a final payoff prior to the conclusion of her domestic dog kidnapping campaign. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Poirot allowed the murderer to escape justice through suicide and then withheld the truth to spare the feelings of the murderer's relatives. In The Augean Stables, he helped the government to cover upwardly vast corruption. In Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot immune the murderers to go complimentary after discovering that twelve unlike people participated in the murder, each one stabbing the victim in a darkened wagon after drugging him into unconsciousness so that at that place was no way for anyone to definitively determine which of them actually delivered the killing accident. The victim had committed a disgusting crime which led to the deaths of at least five people, and there was no question of his guilt, simply he had been acquitted in America in a miscarriage of justice. Considering it poetic justice that twelve jurors had acquitted him and twelve people had stabbed him, Poirot produced an alternative sequence of events to explain the expiry involving an unknown additional passenger on the train, with the medical examiner agreeing to doctor his own report to back up this theory.

Later his cases in the Center East, Poirot returned to United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Apart from some of the and so-called Labours of Hercules (meet next section) he very rarely went away during his later career. He moved into Styles Court towards the end of his life.

While Poirot was usually paid handsomely past clients, he was too known to have on cases that piqued his curiosity, although they did not pay well.

Poirot shows a love of steam trains, which Christie contrasts with Hastings' beloved of autos: this is shown in The Plymouth Express, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Murder on the Orient Express, and The ABC Murders (in the TV series, steam trains are seen in nearly all of the episodes).

Retirement [edit]

That's the way of it. Just a case or 2, simply 1 case more – the Prima Donna's bye performance won't be in it with yours, Poirot.^[45]

Confusion surrounds Poirot's retirement. Most of the cases covered by Poirot'south private detective agency take place earlier his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It has been said that the twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules (1947) must refer to a unlike retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories as well take identify before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his bureau once he had completed them. There is specific mention in "The Capture of Cerberus" of the 20-year gap between Poirot'due south previous coming together with Countess Rossakoff and this 1. If the Labours precede the events in Roger Ackroyd, then the Ackroyd case must have taken place around xx years after than information technology was published, and so must any of the cases that refer to information technology. One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Poirot is determined to have some other go, but this is specifically denied by Poirot himself.^[46] Also, in "The Erymanthian Boar", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria past the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place afterwards 1937. Another alternative would be to suggest that the Preface to the Labours takes place at one date but that the labours are completed over a affair of xx years. None of the explanations is especially attractive.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to abound marrows in Chapter eighteen of The Big Iv ^[47] (1927) which places that novel out of published social club earlier Roger Ackroyd. He declines to solve a example for the Abode Secretary because he is retired in Affiliate One of Peril at End House (1932). He has certainly retired at the time of Iii Act Tragedy (1935) but he does not enjoy his retirement and repeatedly takes cases thereafter when his curiosity is engaged. He continues to utilize his secretary, Miss Lemon, at the fourth dimension of the cases retold in Hickory Dickory Dock and Dead Human being's Folly, which have identify in the mid-1950s. It is, therefore, amend to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective, or a retired detective as the needs of the firsthand example required.

One consistent element about Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it so that in the after novels he is frequently disappointed when characters (especially younger characters) recognise neither him nor his name:

"I should, perhaps, Madame, tell yous a little more almost myself. I am Hercule Poirot."

The revelation left Mrs Summerhayes unmoved.

"What a lovely proper noun," she said kindly. "Greek, isn't it?"^[48]

Post–Globe War II [edit]

He, I knew, was non likely to be far from his headquarters. The time when cases had drawn him from one terminate of England to the other was past.

Poirot is less agile during the cases that take place at the end of his career. Get-go with Three Act Tragedy (1934), Christie had perfected during the inter-state of war years a subgenre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events. In novels such as Taken at the Inundation, Afterward the Funeral, and Hickory Dickory Dock, he is even less in show, ofttimes passing the duties of master interviewing detective to a subsidiary character. In Cat Amidst the Pigeons, Poirot's entrance is so tardily as to exist almost an reconsideration. Whether this was a reflection of his age or of Christie's distaste for him, is impossible to assess. Kleptomaniacal Business firm (1949) and Ordeal by Innocence (1957), which could easily have been Poirot novels, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of his presence in such works.

Towards the end of his career, it becomes clear that Poirot'due south retirement is no longer a convenient fiction. He assumes a genuinely inactive lifestyle during which he concerns himself with studying famous unsolved cases of the past and reading detective novels. He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.^{[fifty] [ page needed ]} In the absence of a more advisable puzzle, he solves such inconsequential domestic riddles equally the presence of three pieces of orange peel in his umbrella stand up.^{[51] [ page needed ]}

Poirot (and, it is reasonable to suppose, his creator)^[a] becomes increasingly bemused by the vulgarism of the up-and-coming generation's young people. In Hickory Dickory Dock, he investigates the strange goings-on in a educatee hostel, while in Third Daughter (1966) he is forced into contact with the smart set of Chelsea youths. In the growing drug and popular civilisation of the sixties, he proves himself once over again but has go heavily reliant on other investigators (specially the private investigator, Mr. Goby) who provide him with the clues that he tin no longer get together for himself.

You're also old. Nobody told me you were so sometime. I really don't want to exist rude simply – there it is. You're too old. I'grand really very pitiful.

—Norma Restarick to Poirot in Tertiary Girl, Chapter 1^{[l] [ folio needed ]}

Notably, during this fourth dimension his physical characteristics also change dramatically, and by the time Arthur Hastings meets Poirot over again in Curtain, he looks very different from his previous appearances, having get sparse with age and with obviously dyed hair.

Decease [edit]

On the ITV tv set series, Poirot died in October 1949^[54] from complications of a center condition at the end of Curtain: Poirot's Final Case. This took identify at Styles Courtroom, the scene of his showtime English case in 1916. In Christie's novels, he lived into the early 1970s, perhaps even until 1975 when Mantle was published. In both the novel and the television adaptation, he had moved his amyl nitrite pills out of his own achieve, mayhap because of guilt. He thereby became the murderer in Curtain, although information technology was for the benefit of others. Poirot himself noted that he wanted to impale his victim presently earlier his own death so that he could avoid succumbing to the arrogance of the murderer, concerned that he might come to view himself as entitled to kill those whom he deemed necessary to eliminate.

The "murderer" that he was hunting had never actually killed anyone, but he had manipulated others to impale for him, subtly and psychologically manipulating the moments where others want to commit murder so that they deport out the criminal offence when they might otherwise dismiss their thoughts every bit nothing more than a momentary passion. Poirot thus was forced to kill the man himself, as otherwise he would have connected his actions and never been officially convicted, equally he did not legally do anything incorrect. It is revealed at the end of Curtain that he fakes his demand for a wheelchair to fool people into believing that he is suffering from arthritis, to requite the impression that he is more infirm than he is. His last recorded words are "Cher ami!", spoken to Hastings as the Captain left his room. (The TV adaptation adds that every bit Poirot is dying alone, he whispers out his final prayer to God in these words: "Forgive me... forgive...") Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was bundled by his best friend Hastings and Hastings' girl Judith. Hastings reasoned, "Here was the spot where he had lived when he first came to this country. He was to lie hither at the terminal."

Poirot's actual decease and funeral occurred in Drape, years afterwards his retirement from the active investigation, but it was not the showtime time that Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend. In The Large Four (1927), Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

Recurring characters [edit]

Helm Arthur Hastings [edit]

Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a constabulary officer in Kingdom of belgium and almost immediately after they both go far in England. He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average homo would see them and for his tendency to unknowingly "stumble" onto the truth.^[55] Hastings marries and has iv children – two sons and two daughters. As a loyal, albeit somewhat naïve companion, Hastings is to Poirot what Watson is to Sherlock Holmes.

Hastings is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted past The Big Four and displaying unwavering loyalty towards Poirot. However, when forced to choose betwixt Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to protect his wife. Later, though, he tells Poirot to draw dorsum and escape the trap.

The 2 are an closed squad until Hastings meets and marries Dulcie Duveen, a beautiful music hall performer half his age, after investigating the Murder on the Links. They subsequently emigrated to Argentina, leaving Poirot backside as a "very unhappy erstwhile homo". However, Poirot and Hastings reunite during the novels The Big Four, Peril at End House, The ABC Murders, Lord Edgware Dies, and Dumb Witness, when Hastings arrives in England for business, with Poirot noting in ABC Murders that he enjoys having Hastings over because he feels that he always has his well-nigh interesting cases with Hastings. The two collaborate for the final fourth dimension in Mantle: Poirot'due south Last Case when the seemingly-crippled Poirot asks Hastings to assist him in his concluding example. When the killer they are tracking well-nigh manipulates Hastings into committing murder, Poirot describes this in his concluding good day letter to Hastings equally the goad that prompted him to eliminate the man himself, as Poirot knew that his friend was not a murderer and refused to let a man capable of manipulating Hastings in such a style go on.

Mrs Ariadne Oliver [edit]

Detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-extravaganza. Like Christie, she is not overly fond of the detective whom she is most famous for creating–in Ariadne's example, Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson. We never learn anything about her husband, but nosotros exercise know that she hates alcohol and public appearances and has a great fondness for apples until she is put off them by the events of Hallowe'en Party. She also has a habit of constantly changing her hairstyle, and in every appearance past her much is made of her wearing apparel and hats. Her maid Maria prevents the public adoration from becoming likewise much of a burden on her employer but does null to preclude her from condign likewise much of a burden on others.

She has authored more than 56 novels and profoundly dislikes people modifying her characters. She is the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that "It'southward not natural for five or six people to exist on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B." She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has bothered him always since.

Miss Felicity Lemon [edit]

Poirot's secretarial assistant, Miss Felicity Lemon, has few human weaknesses. The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried well-nigh foreign events surrounding her sister at the time. Poirot described her as being "Unbelievably ugly and incredibly efficient. Anything that she mentioned as worth consideration usually was worth consideration." She is an adept on virtually everything and plans to create the perfect filing organisation. She also worked for the government statistician-turned-philanthropist Parker Pyne. Whether this was during 1 of Poirot'due south numerous retirements or before she entered his employment is unknown.^{[ citation needed ]} In The Agatha Christie Hour, she was portrayed by Angela Easterling, while in Agatha Christie's Poirot she was portrayed by Pauline Moran. On a number of occasions, she joins Poirot in his inquiries or seeks out answers lonely at his request.

Chief Inspector James Harold Japp [edit]

Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories trying to solve cases that Poirot is working on. Japp is outgoing, loud, and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the refined Belgian is i of the stranger aspects of Poirot'due south world. He commencement met Poirot in Belgium in 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery. Later that yr they joined forces again to hunt downward a criminal known as Baron Altara. They also meet in England where Poirot ofttimes helps Japp and lets him take credit in return for special favours. These favours usually entail Poirot being supplied with other interesting cases.^[56] In Agatha Christie's Poirot, Japp was portrayed past Philip Jackson. In the film, Thirteen at Dinner (1985), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the role player David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

Major novels [edit]

The Poirot books have readers through the whole of his life in England, from the outset book (The Mysterious Matter at Styles), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the final Poirot book (Curtain), where he visits Styles before his decease. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England likewise, including his nearly famous case, Murder on the Orient Limited (1934).

Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to information technology in the title of his well-known set on on detective fiction, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934); The ABC Murders (1935); Cards on the Table (1936); and Death on the Nile (1937), a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer. Expiry on the Nile was judged by detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.^[57]

The 1942 novel V Little Pigs (a.k.a. Murder in Retrospect), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed xvi years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, has been chosen "the best Christie of all"^[58] by critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard.

In 2014, the Poirot canon was added to past Sophie Hannah, the first author to be commissioned by the Christie estate to write an original story. The novel was called The Monogram Murders, and was fix in the late 1920s, placing information technology chronologically betwixt The Mystery of the Blue Railroad train and Peril at Stop House. A second Hannah-penned Poirot came out in 2016, called Airtight Casket, and a tertiary, The Mystery of Three Quarters, in 2018.^[59]

Portrayals [edit]

Stage [edit]

The start actor to portray Hercule Poirot was Charles Laughton. He appeared on the Due west End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. In 1932, the play was performed as The Fatal Excuse on Broadway. Another Poirot play, Black Coffee opened in London at the Diplomatic mission Theatre on 8 December 1930 and starred Francis L. Sullivan as Poirot. Some other production of Black Coffee ran in Dublin, Republic of ireland from 23 to 28 June 1931, starring Robert Powell. American playwright Ken Ludwig adapted Murder on the Orient Limited into a play, which premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey on 14 March 2017. Information technology starred Allan Corduner in the role of Hercule Poirot.

Film [edit]

Austin Trevor [edit]

Austin Trevor debuted the function of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi. The flick was based on the phase play. Trevor reprised the role of Poirot twice, in Black Java and Lord Edgware Dies. Trevor said once that he was probably cast as Poirot but because he could do a French emphasis.^[60] Notably, Trevor's Poirot did not have a moustache. Leslie Southward. Hiscott directed the offset two films, and Henry Edwards took over for the third.

Tony Randall [edit]

Tony Randall portrayed Poirot in The Alphabet Murders, a 1965 picture show also known as The ABC Murders. This was more a satire of Poirot than a straightforward adaptation and was profoundly changed from the original. Much of the story, prepare in mod times, was played for one-act, with Poirot investigating the murders while evading the attempts by Hastings (Robert Morley) and the law to get him out of England and dorsum to Belgium.

Albert Finney [edit]

Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express. As of today, Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Honor nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.

Peter Ustinov [edit]

Peter Ustinov played Poirot half dozen times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978). He reprised the role in Evil Nether the Dominicus (1982) and Appointment with Decease (1988).

Christie's daughter Rosalind Hicks observed Ustinov during a rehearsal and said, "That'south not Poirot! He isn't at all like that!" Ustinov overheard and remarked "He is at present!"^[61]

He appeared once again as Poirot in three tv set films: 13 at Dinner (1985), Dead Human'southward Folly (1986), and Murder in 3 Acts (1986). Earlier adaptations were set during the time in which the novels were written, merely these television films were set in the contemporary era. The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was fabricated by Warner Bros. It besides starred Faye Dunaway, with David Suchet every bit Inspector Japp, just before Suchet began to play Poirot. David Suchet considers his performance as Japp to be "maybe the worst performance of [his] career".^[62]

Kenneth Branagh [edit]

In 2017, Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in another motion-picture show adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. Branagh returned for the sequel, Death on the Nile.

Other [edit]

• Anatoly Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza (Terminate House Mystery) (1989; based on "Peril at Terminate House")

Television [edit]

David Suchet [edit]

David Suchet starred as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 1989 until June 2013, when he announced that he was bidding adieu to the function. "No one could've guessed then that the series would span a quarter-century or that the classically trained Suchet would complete the entire catalogue of whodunits featuring the eccentric Belgian investigator, including 33 novels and dozens of short stories."^[63] His concluding appearance was in an adaptation of Pall: Poirot's Last Case, aired on 13 Nov 2013.

The writers of the "Binge!" commodity of Amusement Weekly Issue #1343–44 (26 December 2014 – 3 January 2015) picked Suchet as "Best Poirot" in the "Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple" timeline.^[64]

The episodes were shot in various locations in the UK, and foreign scenes were shot in Twickenham studios.^[65]

Other [edit]

• Heini Göbel, (1955; an accommodation of Murder on the Orient Limited for the West German goggle box series Die Galerie der großen Detektive)
• José Ferrer, Hercule Poirot (1961; Unaired Boob tube Pilot, MGM; adaptation of "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim")
• Martin Gabel, General Electric Theater (4/one/1962; accommodation of "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim")
• Horst Bollmann, Black Coffee 1973
• Ian Holm, Murder past the Book, 1986
• Arnolds Liniņš, Slepkavība Stailzā (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), 1990
• Hugh Laurie, Spice Globe, 1997
• Alfred Molina, Murder on the Orient Express, 2001
• Konstantin Raikin, Neudacha Puaro (Poirot's Failure) (2002; based on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd")
• Shirō Itō (Takashi Akafuji), Meitantei Akafuji Takashi (The Detective Takashi Akafuji), 2005
• Mansai Nomura (Takeru Suguro), Orient Kyūkō Satsujin Jiken (Murder on the Orient Express), 2015; Kuroido Goroshi (The Murder of Kuroido), 2018 (based on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"); Shi to no Yakusoku, 2021 (based on Appointment with Death)
• John Malkovich was cast as Poirot in the 2018 BBC accommodation of The ABC Murders.^[66]

Anime [edit]

In 2004, NHK (Japanese public Tv set network) produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie'south Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, every bit well as a manga series under the same championship released in 2005. The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan. Poirot was voiced by Kōtarō Satomi and Miss Marple was voiced past Kaoru Yachigusa.

Radio [edit]

From 1985 to 2007, BBC Radio iv produced a series of twenty-seven adaptations of Poirot novels and brusque stories, adapted by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams.^[67] Twenty v starred John Moffatt equally Poirot; Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis played Poirot on BBC Radio iv in the beginning two adaptations, The Mystery of the Blue Train and in Hercule Poirot'southward Christmas respectively.

In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatised Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.^{[68] [69]}

On 6 October 1942, the Mutual radio serial Murder Clinic broadcast "The Tragedy at Marsden Estate" starring Maurice Tarplin equally Poirot.^[seventy]

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes (none of which apparently conform any Christie stories) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred graphic symbol player Harold Huber,^[71] mayhap ameliorate known for his appearances every bit a police officeholder in various Charlie Chan films. On 22 February 1945, "speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave".^[68]

An accommodation of Murder in the Mews was broadcast on the BBC Light Program in March 1955 starring Richard Williams as Poirot; this program was thought lost, only was discovered in the BBC archives in 2015.^[72]

Other sound [edit]

In 2017, Audible released an original audio adaptation of Murder on the Orient Limited starring Tom Conti as Poirot.^[73] The cast included Jane Asher as Mrs. Hubbard, Jay Bridegroom every bit Monsieur Bouc, Ruta Gedmintas as Countess Andrenyi, Sophie Okonedo as Mary Debenham, Eddie Marsan as Ratchett, Walles Hamonde as Hector MacQueen, Paterson Joseph as Colonel Arbuthnot, Rula Lenska as Princess Dragimiroff and Art Malik as the Narrator. According to the Publisher's Summary on Aural.com, "sound effects [were] recorded on the Orient Express itself."

In 2021, L.A. Theatre Works produced an adaptation of The Murder on the Links, dramatised by Kate McAll. Alfred Molina starred equally Poirot, with Simon Helberg as Hastings.^[74]

Video Games [edit]

The game Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The Outset Cases has Poirot vocalization acted by Will De Renzy-Martin

Parodies and references [edit]

Parodies of Hercule Poirot have appeared in a number of movies, including Revenge of the Pinkish Panther, where Poirot makes a cameo appearance in a mental asylum, portrayed by Andrew Sachs and claiming to be "the greatest detective in all of France, the greatest in all the earth"; Neil Simon's Murder by Death, where "Milo Perrier" is played past American actor James Coco; the 1977 picture The Strange Example of the Finish of Civilisation every bit Nosotros Know It (1977); the film Spice Earth, where Hugh Laurie plays Poirot; and in Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Poirot appears as a young boy on the train transporting Holmes and Watson. Holmes helps the male child in opening a puzzle-box, with Watson giving the boy advice virtually using his "niggling grey cells".

In the volume series Geronimo Stilton, the character Hercule Poirat is inspired by Hercule Poirot.

The Belgian brewery Brasserie Ellezelloise makes a stout called Hercule with a moustachioed caricature of Hercule Poirot on the label.^[75]

In flavour 2, episode 4 of TVFPlay'south Indian spider web series Permanent Roommates, i of the characters refers to Hercule Poirot as her inspiration while she attempts to solve the mystery of the cheating spouse. Throughout the episode, she is mocked every bit Hercule Poirot and Agatha Christie past the suspects.^[76] TVFPlay as well telecasted a spoof of Indian TV suspense drama CID as "Qissa Missing Dimaag Ka: C.I.D Qtiyapa". In the start episode, when Ujjwal is shown to scan for the best detectives of the world, David Suchet appears as Poirot in his search.^[77]

See likewise [edit]

• Poirot Investigates
• Tropes in Agatha Christie's novels

Footnotes [edit]

1. ^ In The Pale Equus caballus, Chapter 1, the novel'southward narrator, Mark Easterbrook, disapprovingly describes a typical "Chelsea girl"^{[52] [ page needed ]} in much the same terms that Poirot uses in Chapter 1 of Third Girl, suggesting that the condemnation of fashion is authorial.^{[53] [ page needed ]}

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14. ^ Due east.k. "Hercule Poirot looked down at the tips of his patent-leather shoes and sighed." Christie 1947a
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37. ^ The date is given in Christie 2009b, Chapter 15
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Literature [edit]

Works [edit]

• Christie, Agatha (1939). The Mysterious Thing at Styles. Penguin. ISBN978-1-61298-214-4.
• Christie, Agatha (1947). Prologue. Collins.
• Christie, Agatha (1947a). The Apples of the Hesperides. Collins.
• Christie, Agatha (1947b). The Stymphalean Birds. Collins.
• Christie, Agatha (1947c). The Erymanthian Boar. Collins.
• Christie, Agatha (1948). Taken at the Flood.
• Christie, Agatha (1952). Mrs. McGinty'southward Dead.
• Christie, Agatha (1961). The Stake Horse by A.Christie. Collins.
• Christie, Agatha (1975). Curtain: Poirot's Last Case. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-00-712112-0.
• Christie, Agatha (1980). Evil Under the Sun: Decease Comes as the Cease; The Sittaford Mystery. Lansdowne Printing. ISBN978-0-7018-1458-eight.
• Christie, Agatha (1991). The A.B.C. murders: [a Hercule Poirot mystery]. Berkley Publishing Grouping. ISBN978-0-425-13024-7.
• Christie, Agatha (28 September 2004a). The Clocks. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-174050-3.
• Christie, Agatha (6 January 2004b). The Large Iv. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-173909-5.
• Christie, Agatha (25 January 2005). Afterward the Funeral: Hercule Poirot Investigates. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-173991-0.
• Christie, Agatha (3 October 2006a). The Labours of Hercules: Hercule Poirot Investigates. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-174638-3.
• Christie, Agatha (3 Oct 2006b). Three Act Tragedy. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-175403-6.
• Christie, Agatha (17 March 2009). The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-176340-3.
• Christie, Agatha (17 March 2009b). Peril at Cease House. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-174927-8.
• Christie, Agatha (10 February 2010). Decease in the Clouds. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-174311-5.
• Christie, Agatha (ane February 2011a). Five Little Pigs: A Hercule Poirot Mystery . HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-207357-0.
• Christie, Agatha (29 March 2011). Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery . HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-207350-ane.
• Christie, Agatha (1 September 2011b). The Dream: A Hercule Poirot Brusque Story. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN978-0-00-745198-2.
• Christie, Agatha (14 June 2011c). Third Girl: A Hercule Poirot Mystery. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-207376-i.
• Christie, Agatha (12 April 2012). The Kidnapped Prime Government minister: A Hercule Poirot Short Story. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN978-0-00-748658-viii.
• Christie, Agatha (2013). Hercule Poirot: The Consummate Curt Stories: A Hercule Poirot Collection with Foreword by Charles Todd. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-225165-7.
• Christie, Agatha (9 July 2013a). The Lost Mine: A Hercule Poirot Story. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-229818-8.
• Christie, Agatha (23 July 2013b). Double Sin: A Hercule Poirot Story. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-229845-4.

Reviews [edit]

• Barnard, Robert (1980), A Talent to Deceive, London: Fontana/Collins
• Goddard, John (2018), Agatha Christie'southward Golden Historic period: An Analysis of Poirot's Golden Age Puzzles, Fashionable Eye Printing, ISBN 978-1-999-61200-9
• Hart, Anne (2004), Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot, London: Harper and Collins
• Kretzschmar, Judith; Stoppe, Sebastian; Vollberg, Susanne, eds. (2016), Hercule Poirot trifft Miss Marple. Agatha Christie intermedial, Darmstadt: Büchner, ISBN978-iii-941310-48-3 .
• Osborne, Charles (1982), The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie, London: Collins

External links [edit]

• Official Agatha Christie website
• A drove of public domain Poirot works as eBooks at Standard Ebooks
• Hercule Poirot on IMDb
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles at Project Gutenberg
• Listen to Orson Welles in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
• Listen to the 1945 Hercule Poirot radio program
• Wiktionary definition of Edgar Allan Poe'due south "ratiocination"

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