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  2. Hercule Poirot - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  3. Hercule Poirot in literature - Wikipedia

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    Poirot settles down in London and opens a private detective agency. These are the short story years (26 short stories and only 4 novels). "The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan" (short story from Poirot Investigates)

  4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Under Dog and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman's Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader's Library. [1] The first US edition retailed at $2.50. [2] It contains works from the early days of Christie's career, all featuring Hercule Poirot. All the stories were published in British and ...

  6. Death in the Clouds - Wikipedia

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    Not that such minor matters are of the slightest consequence to the reader; the main thing is that this is an Agatha Christie story, featuring Hercule Poirot, who is, by his own admission, the world's greatest detective. ... This is a crime puzzle of the first quality, and a mighty entertaining story besides. [5]

  7. The Mystery of the Blue Train - Wikipedia

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    The novel's plot is based on the 1923 Poirot short story "The Plymouth Express" [8] (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...