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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