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The point and click computer game Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express was released in November 2006 for Windows and expanded on Agatha Christie's original story, revolving around Antoinette Marceau – a new character created specifically for the game – as Hercule Poirot (voiced by David Suchet) is ill and recovering in his train ...
The Monogram Murders is a 2014 mystery novel by British writer Sophie Hannah featuring characters created by Agatha Christie.It is the first in Hannah's series of Hercule Poirot books, continuation novels sanctioned by the estate of Agatha Christie.
Hercule Poirot (UK: / ˈ ɛər k juː l ˈ p w ɑːr oʊ /, US: / h ɜːr ˈ k juː l p w ɑː ˈ r oʊ / [1]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
In addition to these regular characters, all the gentlemen in the novels have servants; Poirot's is the most incurable snob he could find. George is a classic English valet. He first entered Poirot's employ in 1923, and did not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot's death.
Murder on the Orient Express also published as Murder in the Calais Coach; Three Act Tragedy, also published as Murder in Three Acts; Death in the Clouds "How Does Your Garden Grow?" (short story from Poirot's Early Cases and The Regatta Mystery) The A.B.C. Murders "Problem at Sea" (short story from Poirot's Early Cases and The Regatta Mystery)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.
They did admit that "[n]o solution could be more surprising" and stated that the character of Poirot was "a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors; and one even suspects a touch of satire in him." [7] Robert Barnard: "Super-complicated early whodunit, set in the northerly fringes of France so beloved of the English bankrupt. Poirot ...
The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as "A.B.C.".