![]() ![]() Ariadne Oliver, a mystery novelist who despises her most famous creation, vegetarian Finnish detective Sven Hjerson, appears in six novels with Poirot, starting with that year’s Cards on the Table. Poirot first appeared in her 1920 novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and by 1936 -14 books later - Christie grew frustrated enough to insert a version of herself into the story. Her exhaustion with the character is apparent, though. Poirot, “The Mystery of the Spanish Chest”Ĭhristie famously called Poirot a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep,” a string of adjectives so often quoted it’s difficult to find their original source. ![]() “Hastings, why should I be the hypocrite? To blush when I am praised and say, like you, ‘It is nothing.’ I have the order, the method, and the psychology. The slow thin of his mustache, the growth of his ponderous belly, the accumulation of papery lines at the corners of his eyes has been nothing short of astonishing. ![]() For the past 25 years, viewers have watched an actor and character grow and change together, episode by episode, year by year: a time-lapse detective. Only James Arness and Milburn Stone, who played Dodge City’s marshal and doctor, respectively, during Gunsmoke’s two decades, rival Suchet’s run. But for all of the Doctor’s famed longevity, his longest-lived incarnation lasted only seven seasons - a long time to be sure, but nothing like Suchet’s quarter century. In the country of Doctor Who, a program that celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, Poirot‘s 25 years can feel paltry. In all of them, Christie’s most prolific creation is played by David Suchet. Its last, “Curtain,” aired this November 13th. The 70 total episodes (some of Christie’s stories were condensed into a single script) first began to appear in 1989. Of the 33 novels and 56 short stories that include Hercule Poirot - private detective, Belgian expat, dandy, neat freak, ambiguous bachelor, Catholic sentimentalist, and often judge, jury, and executioner - all have aired, in some form or fashion, as a part of ITV’s Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Her 85 books, over half of which feature her “tidy little man,” have sold around four billion copies to date. ON AUGUST 6, 1975, an obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times: “Hercule Poirot Is Dead Famed Belgian Detective.” The only obituary of a fictional character printed in the Times, and certainly the only one to make the front page, it sweetly insists on his reality: “The news of his death, given by Dame Agatha, was not unexpected.”Īgatha Christie, after Shakespeare and the authors of the Bible, ranks as the third bestselling writer of all time. ![]()
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