In some episodes, Kommissar Keller even asks everyone to gather at the scene of the crime so that he, in the manner of Hercule Poirot, can reconstruct the events leading up to, and following, the killing so that the murderer can eventually be arrested.

But when she is found dead, Hercule Poirot proposes to solve the case in twenty-four hours, even though he has no way of even proving whether it was murder.

An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of April 10, 1948 said, " Hercule Poirot, whose eggshaped cranium is crammed with lively gray cells, proves himself a bit of a mug before he sorts out all the details of Arden's death and other even more baffling mysteries.

Christie is purposefully vague, as Poirot is thought to be elderly even in the early Poirot novels, and in An Autobiography she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920.

Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff before her dog kidnapping campaign came to an end.

While even Caroline is able to interpret certain situations correctly, Christie privileges scientific mode of investigation by unveiling the murderer through Poirot.

In Chapter 3, Poirot lays out the plot of what he considers a perfect crime, a crime so challenging that ' even he ' would find it hard to solve.

There are even similarities of role: Hastings is Poirot's only close friend, and the two share a flat briefly when Poirot sets up his detective agency.

Unlike Poirot, who is not above lying, surreptitiously reading other people's letters, eavesdropping, etc., in his quest to solve a case, Hastings is absolutely horrified by such things and usually refuses to do these things even when asked to do so by Poirot.

Although he lacks Poirot's intellect, Poirot has often complimented Hastings ' ability to remember facts and details about their cases even if he deplores the manner in which Hastings tells the story at times.

But Poirot is aware that he alone must work quickly before the murderer strikes again, even if it means putting his life on the line ...

And yet, when the evil-hearted old tyrant has been murdered at last and Poirot considers the suspects, one follows with genuine interest the unraveling of even unexciting clues.

Theresa and Charles want to have the will contested and even offer to pay Poirot for it.

by Michael Innes, Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham and Careless Corpse by C. Daly King ) when he said, " Only Mrs. Christie keeps closer to the old tradition, and this time she adds much doggy lore and a terrier so fascinating that even Poirot himself is nearly driven from the centre of the stage.

She told Poirot that she liked Bentley and did not believe he was guilty or even capable of murdering Mrs McGinty.

In chapter 5 Poirot also remembers Count Vera Rossakoff ’ s " exotic splendour ... even in decay ", something that he has only observed in The Capture of Cerberus, also from The Labours of Hercules.

Soon afterwards she and Poirot consult and he checks that she has followed the remainder of her instructions: they are to tell Andersen that she is going to come into a large sum of money that she will leave to the sect, that she has problems with her lungs and that Mrs Clegg will soon inherit an even larger sum of money from an aunt than that which her late husband left her.

Interviewing the maid in the house, Poirot finds out that the trunk was already packed, meaning that Eliza had planned to leave even though her departure was swift.

By torchlight, Poirot examines the grass outside the study window and finds no trace of footprints, even though it rained earlier in the evening and that means someone in the house is responsible.

Poirot is bored with the lack of interesting cases which come his way, telling Hastings that the criminals of England fear him too much and he dismisses the suggestion that most of them don't even know that he exists.

Poirot is pleased to point out that not only do the criminals of England know him, they even try to use him when their own efforts come to nothing!

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

`` Can't you stop that stupid clowning for even a minute ''??

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.

he had no use any longer for exact time, even had the watch been running.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

But even for them it remains a museum, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say a tomb, a tomb in which Persia lies well preserved but indeed dead.

This schedule became too strenuous, even for the energetic and conscientious Mr. Steinberg.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently, too, for his audience, who could indulge in moral indignation without visible, or even conscious, discomfort, their money from the transaction having been put away long ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ).

Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

it did not even provide the architect's plan for anything new.

But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.