more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg…His moustache was very stiff and military.” With this description Agatha Christie introduced Hercule Poirot in October 1920 in her first novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”.
The pursuit of order is one of Poirot’s great, and most infuriating, missions in life. He grouches about boiled eggs of uneven sizes and people who fail to fold newspapers symmetrically. He flicks away an “imaginary speck of dust”. After all, a close eye for detail wasin becoming “probably the greatest detective in the world”. Self-belief was never in short supply, either.
For murder seemed to follow him wherever he went, from rural England and the back alleys of London to the Orient Express and the River Nile.he made mistakes, and even had to dodge assassination attempts, but he always got his man—or woman. Or both. Given all the marital strife that he saw, it was little wonder that he had no time for romance.
Despite his pedantry and eccentricity, Poirot remains one of the best loved characters in fiction. He is pompous, vain and often quite annoying, but endowed with enormous empathy and a powerful understanding of human nature. And he is always right. As Hastings remarks, “Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.” Over 33 novels and 59 short stories, Poirot elicited the same unswerving faith from his fans.
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Because of his pedantry and eccentricity, Poirot...
I always felt the eccentricities and fussiness were a distractor on his part.
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Fact is when I was age 25 people used to offer seats on the tube or the bus. Now I am age 77 they do the same thing. Age has nothing to do with it. Good manners!!!
Happy Birthday to you, Mr. Poirot
Wow. He’s looking pretty good for 100!
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