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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 Christie's most famous and longest-running character, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
He features as Hercule Poirot's good friend in Cards on the Table (1936) and Death on the Nile (1937). He appears for the last time in Sparkling Cyanide (1945), and as with his first appearance, Poirot is not a character in the novel. He is known for his patience, composure, and ability to detect facts quickly without anyone else noticing.
Stories featuring Hercule Poirot also appear in the collections The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939), The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948), Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950), The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960), Double Sin and Other Stories (1961), Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991 ...
Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot (UK: / p w ɑːr oʊ / [1]), is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie's famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator Hercule Poirot.
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.
Although the stories contained within the volume had all appeared in previous US collections, the book also appeared there later in 1974 [2] [3] under the slightly different title of Hercule Poirot's Early Cases in an edition retailing at $6.95.
The first adaptation of the novel was the 1965 film The Alphabet Murders with Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot, a version far more comic than mysterious. The story of the 2012 Malayalam film Grandmaster written by director B. Unnikrishnan draws inspirations from The A.B.C. Murders.
The novel's plot is based on the 1923 Poirot short story "The Plymouth Express" [9] (later collected in book form in the US in 1951 in The Under Dog and Other Stories and in the UK in 1974 in Poirot's Early Cases). [citation needed] The novel "also contains a number of firsts", which include "reference to the fictional village of St. Mary Mead...