) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

Chief Inspector Japp asks Poirot to assist Scotland Yard in the strange events which took place at a recent costumed Victory Ball.

* German: Poirots erste Fälle ( Poirot's First Cases ) Mord auf dem Siegesball ( Murder at the Victory Ball ) Köchin gesucht ( Cook Wanted ) Die mysteriöse Angelegenheit in Cornwall ( The Mysterious Case in Cornwall ) Poirot und der Kidnapper ( Poirot and the Kidnapper ) Ein Indiz zuviel ( One Evidence Too Much ) Die Abenteuer des Kreuzkönigs ( The Adventure of the King of Clubs ) Das Erbe der Familie Lemesurier ( The Inheritance of the Lemesurier Family ) Die verlorene Mine ( The Lost Mine ) Das Geheimnis des Plymouth-Express ( The Secret of the Plymouth-Express ) Die Pralinenschachtel ( The Chocolate Box ) Die U-Boot-Pläne ( The Submarine Plans ) Tod im dritten Stock ( Death in the Third Floor ) Die Doppelsünde ( The Double Sin ) Stille vor dem Sturm ( The Calm Before a Storm ) Das Wespennest ( The Wasp's Nest ) Poirot geht stehlen ( Poirot Goes Thieving ) Eine Tür fällt ins Schloss ( A Door Falls Shut ) Der verräterische Garten ( The Taletelling Garden )

Poirot and his counterparts are perfectly respectable people ; ;

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

We do not know whether this case resulted in a successful prosecution or not ; moreover, Poirot is not above lying in order to produce a particular effect in the person to whom he is speaking, so this evidence is not reliable.

* José Ferrer, Hercule Poirot ( 1961 ; Unaired TV Pilot, MGM ; adaptation of " The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim ")

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

He arranges a dinner party to show off this collection ; Poirot is apprehensive.

Roberts, Meredith, Lorrimer, and Despard play in the first room, while Poirot, Oliver, Race, and Battle play in the next ; Shaitana settles himself in a chair in the first room and thinks of how wonderfully his party is going.

He testifies that he saw Roberts inject Lorrimer with a syringe ; a syringe, Poirot reveals, full of a lethal anaesthetic.

Not that such minor matters are of the slightest consequence to the reader ; the main thing is that this is an Agatha Christie story, featuring Hercule Poirot, who is, by his own admission, the world's greatest detective.

* Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective displaced by the war to England ; Hastings ' old friend

Hastings's appearances in Poirot's later novels are restricted to a few cases in which he participates on his periodic returns to England from Argentina ; Poirot comments in The ABC Murders that he enjoys Hastings's visits because he always has his most interesting cases when Hastings is with him.

In other respects there is very little personal detail regarding him in these novels, until Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which is presumed to take place a great many years later ; with his wife now dead, Hastings rejoins Poirot at Styles to help Poirot tackle one last case, Poirot dying of a heart attack at the conclusion but leaving Hastings a confession explaining his role in events.

Like those of Miss Lemon and Arthur Hastings, the role of Inspector Japp in Poirot's career has been exaggerated by adaptations of Christie's original novels ; specifically by the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where these characters are often introduced into stories that did not originally feature them.

James Japp, while being a competent detective, is no match for Poirot ; he frequently finds himself a step behind the great detective but has developed a grudging respect for the man's abilities over their years together.

Mrs. Oliver repeats to Poirot Joyce's comment that she had once witnessed a murder ; Mrs. Oliver now wonders if Joyce might have been telling the truth, which might provide someone with a motive for killing her.

Highbrow British mysteries including Agatha Christie's Poirot, Cracker, Dalziel and Pascoe, Inspector Morse, Lovejoy, Midsomer Murders, the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series and Sherlock Holmes were also featured ; several of these series were produced in association with A & E.

This characterisation of Hastings is made by Poirot himself in " The Mystery of the Spanish Chest " ( 1932 ): " How my dear friend, Hastings, would have enjoyed this!

Poirot persuades the police to dig up an abandoned well in the Quarry Garden.

:" You've heard me speak of Mr Poirot?

* Why would Cust not remember Poirot or typing the letters?

( In one passage, Hercule Poirot actually says: " Don't you know that every detective has a brother who is smarter but less practical than himself?

But what can all this have to do with a bouquet of wax flowers under glass to which Poirot pays attention?

Holidaying in Jerusalem, Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister: " You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?

She has guested on The Bill ; Doctor Who ; Dr Finlay's Casebook ; Wycliffe ; Agatha Christie's Poirot ; and also appeared in The Sinners ; Holly, as the title character Holly Elliot ; Adam Smith ; Bizarre and Rummage ; The Master of Ballantrae ; Jackanory ; Holding The Fort ; Tom, Dick, and Harriet ; Waiting ; Dangerfield ; Running Wild ; The Visit ; Graham's Gang ; I Told You, Didn't I?

* Hungarian: Hercule Poirot téved?

( Is Hercule Poirot wrong?

" The reviewer then went on to outline the set-up of the plot up to the point where Poirot receives Emily Arundell's letter and then said, " Why should the story not have begun at this point?

When Poirot is called in to investigate, there are therefore several main problems: who killed the victim?

And what is the significance of the small triangle of rubber and the peg that Sugden is able to provide when reminded by Poirot of the clue that had been picked up by Pilar?

Poirot is keen to track her down … but who is she, and what, if anything, has she done?

Poirot is interested in one question of Japp: Did Mr. and Mrs Davenheim share a bedroom?

Hastings is dubious of this deduction but Poirot points out that the man was rumoured to be involved in share scandals years before, although he was later exonerated, but suppose the rumours were true and he was being blackmailed, in all probability by Mrs Conroy, a foreign agent?

Poirot is suspicious – why would the murderer wipe his prints and yet leave his own handkerchief as evidence behind?

Poirot asks a quiet question: " Do you like Langton?

Other works of his include dōjinshi titled A-ZONE ( vol. 0-8 ) involving characters from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo !, Battle Athletes Victory and Dragon Ball among others.

* " Ball ", a song by DJ Khaled from his 2010 album Victory

His most popular work was A Victory Ball, a symphonic poem for orchestra based on an anti-war poem by Alfred Noyes.

* The Affair at the Victory Ball: 20 January 1991

The Affair at the Victory Ball: 7 March 1923-Issue 1571 ( This was Christie's first published short story ).

The Under Dog and Other Stories ( 1951 )-The Affair at the Victory Ball, The King of Clubs, The Plymouth Express, The Market Basing Mystery, The Submarine Plans, The Adventure of the Clapham Cook, The Cornish Mystery, The Le Mesurier Inheritance