Agatha Christie’s Poirot

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Anne Hart. Agatha Christie’s Poirot

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Contents

PREFACE

1 THE CURTAIN RISES

NOTES

2 THE ENGLISH DEBUT

NOTES

3 THE 1920S

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4 THE 1930S

NOTES

5 THE 1940S

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6 THE LAST THREE DECADES

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7 THE COMPLETE POIROT

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8 THE ENGLISH WORLD OF HERCULE POIROT

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9 CAPTAIN ARTHUR HASTINGS, OBE

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10 THE DOMESTIC POIROT

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11 THE EXPEDITIONARY POIROT

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12 ‘MY FRIEND POIROT’

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13 COUNTESS ROSSAKOFF AND MRS OLIVER

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14 THE AVAILABLE POIROT

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15 THE DETECTIVE POIROT

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16 THE CURTAIN FALLS

A POIROT BIBLIOGRAPHY

HERCULE POIROT SHORT STORIES

HERCULE POIROT ON STAGE, FILM, TV AND RADIO

STAGE PLAYS

FILM AND TELEVISION

RADIO

VIDEO GAMES

REFERENCES

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7 Also published under the titles ‘The Clue of the Chocolate Box’ and ‘The Time Hercule Poirot Failed’. There is some confusion as to when this case actually occurred. In Cards on the Table, set in 1937, Poirot spoke of it as having happened ‘twenty-eight years ago’, which places it in 1909, but in Peril at End House he referred to it as ‘a bad failure in Belgium in 1893’.

Vegetable marrows? Poirot? Had he gone quite mad? Was he pining for Hastings? Or the audacious Countess Rossakoff? Or both? Was a year spent virtually alone in a neat walled garden and an overheated sitting-room in King’s Abbot Poirot’s tidy version of a nervous breakdown? It is true that he was now comfortably off, his reputation assured by the recent publication of Hastings’s memoirs, but this period of self-imposed exile, with only the marrows and an ancient Breton housekeeper for company, was a curious episode indeed. Fortunately, one afternoon something snapped. In anger he threw his most impressive vegetable marrow over the garden wall (it landed with ‘a repellent squelch’) and re-entered the world. King’s Abbot, on the very day that Roger Ackroyd was murdered, was at last permitted to know that in its midst dwelt the most eminent detective in Europe.

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