34 Facts About Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot'scule Poirotrcule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.

Hercule Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.

Hercule Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various 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.

Christie's Hercule Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 and published in 1920.

Hercule Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles and exited in Curtain .

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Hercule Poirot's appearance, regarded as fastidious during his early career, later falls hopelessly out of fashion.

Hercule Poirot is extremely punctual and carries a pocket watch almost to the end of his career.

In Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot invents an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate local nurses.

Hercule Poirot is willing to appear more foreign or vain in an effort to make people underestimate him.

In later novels, Christie often uses the word mountebank when characters describe Hercule Poirot, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.

An alternative tradition holds that Hercule Poirot was born in the village of Ellezelles .

Christie wrote that Hercule Poirot is a Catholic by birth, but not much is described about his later religious convictions, except sporadic references to his "going to church".

Hercule Poirot'scule Poirot could pass as a detective to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself.

Hercule Poirot admits that he has failed to solve a crime "innumerable" times:.

Again, Hercule Poirot is not reliable as a narrator of his personal history and there is no evidence that Christie sketched it out in any depth.

In Lord Edgware Dies, Hercule Poirot reveals that he learned to read writing upside down during his police career.

Between the world wars, Hercule Poirot travelled all over Europe and the Middle East investigating crimes and solving murders.

Hercule Poirot'scule Poirot's claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

Hercule Poirot later became smitten with the woman and allowed her to escape justice.

Hercule Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal fascination that the countess held for him.

Hercule Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff prior to the conclusion of her dog kidnapping campaign.

In Murder on the Orient Express, Hercule Poirot allowed the murderers to go free after discovering that twelve different people participated in the murder, each one stabbing the victim in a darkened carriage after drugging him into unconsciousness so that there was no way for anyone to definitively determine which of them actually delivered the killing blow.

One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Hercule Poirot is determined to have another go, but this is specifically denied by Hercule Poirot himself.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Hercule Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

One consistent element about Hercule Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it so that in the later novels he is often disappointed when characters recognise neither him nor his name:.

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Hercule Poirot is less active during the cases that take place at the end of his career.

In Cat Among the Pigeons, Hercule Poirot's entrance is so late as to be almost an afterthought.

Crooked House and Ordeal by Innocence, which could easily have been Hercule Poirot novels, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of his presence in such works.

Hercule Poirot becomes increasingly bemused by the vulgarism of the up-and-coming generation's young people.

Hercule Poirot thus was forced to kill the man himself, as otherwise he would have continued his actions and never been officially convicted, as he did not legally do anything wrong.

Hercule Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book, where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Hercule Poirot book, where he visits Styles before his death.

In between, Hercule Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express .

In 2014, the Hercule Poirot canon was added to by Sophie Hannah, the first author to be commissioned by the Christie estate to write an original story.

Hercule Poirot was voiced by Kotaro Satomi and Miss Marple was voiced by Kaoru Yachigusa.