You know, there were clearly things about this personality that she had created which really wound her up. “Yes, she really didn’t like him – she didn’t like specifically aspects of his personality. According to screenwriter Tom Dalton (via an interview with RadioTimes in 2020), who wrote and produced Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018), Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019), and Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020): Interestingly, Christie wasn’t fond of the character. His mustache was of most importance to Christie, who “was asked to approve its appearance in the 1965 comedy-mystery film The Alphabet Murders.” The character is often seen bumbling about with his best friend, Arthur Hastings, and the detective solved crimes well into the mid-’70s before Christie - after 33 novels - finally killed him off in Curtain which, it turns out, was the author’s final novel before her death (not including Sleeping Murder, which published posthumously).Īccording to the website, The Home of Agatha Christie, Poirot is a retired Belgian police officer turned detective who hates disorder and is described as a 5’4-tall man with a “head the shape of an egg” who “carried himself with great dignity” and was practically neat to a fault. Poirot first appeared in Christie’s novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles way back in 1920. RELATED: Death on the Nile Review: An Enjoyable Whodunit THE BOOKS
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