Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Agatha Christie's numerous mystery novels often referenced Scotland Yard, most notably in her Hercule Poirot series.

She is probably best known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels.

Suchet himself said to The Strand magazine: " What I did was, I had my file on one side of me and a pile of stories on the other side and day after day, week after week, I ploughed through most of Agatha Christie's novels about Hercule Poirot and wrote down characteristics until I had a file full of documentation of the character.

Post-2004 episodes display the increasing use of religious themes and plot elements not found in Christie's novels and harkening instead to the work of authors such as Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene.

Christie's novels include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

This followed Christie's trend of adapting Poirot novels as plays, but without Poirot as a detective, as she did not feel that any actor could portray him successfully.

In Agatha Christie's novels, and films of Hercule Poirot, his fee for his services is 100 guineas.

It is one of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre.

Although Hastings remains the most popular of Poirot's sidekicks, his appearance in only eight of the thirty-three Poirot novels indicates that he no longer served Christie's literary purpose.

Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christie's novels featuring Hercule Poirot.

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.

Japp's career in the Poirot novels extends into the 1930s but, like Hastings, he disappeared from Christie's writing thereafter.

It was home, until her death, of the actress Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels, and children's writer Leila Berg.

The self-caricature has also been used to discuss Christie's own follies in her earlier novels.

He appeared in two film versions of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novels: as Captain Kenneth Marshall in Evil Under the Sun and as Antonio Foscarelli in Murder on the Orient Express.

To date, 32 films and dozens of television adaptations have been made based on Christie's novels alone.

Also a series of lighthearted Miss Marple mysteries were loosely adapted from Christie's novels.

It is just outside the town of Much Benham and is close to Market Basing ( which appears as a name of a town in many of Agatha Christie's novels and short stories ), 12 miles from the fashionable seaside resort of Danemouth, and also 12 miles from the coastal town of Loomouth.

The house was occupied by Christie and Mallowan until their deaths in 1976 and 1978 respectively, and featured, under various guises, in several of Christie's novels.

The novel is a fine example of a " country house mystery " and was the first of her novels in four years to feature Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot — one of the longest gaps in the entire series.

Mithridatism has been used as a plot device in novels, films, video games, and TV shows including, among others, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Rappaccini's Daughter ", Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll, Dorothy Sayers's Strong Poison, Agatha Christie's Curtain, William Goldman's The Princess Bride ( and the movie of the same name ).

Soane's paintings include: works by Canaletto entitled View of the Riva degli Schiavoni painted ( 1736 ) purchased in 1806 from William Thomas Beckford for 150 Guineas plus three other works by the artist, and paintings by Hogarth: the eight canvases of the A Rake's Progress, purchased from the collection of William Thomas Beckford, at auction for 570 Guineas in 1801, the other Hogarth paintings Soane purchased were the four canvases of the Humours of an Election bought at auction at Christie's from David Garrick's widow for £ 1, 732, 10s in June 1823.

Other acting appearances include the comedy-drama In the Red ( BBC Two, 1998 ), the macabre sitcom Nighty Night ( BBC Three, 2003 ), Agatha Christie's Marple as Ronald Hawes in The Murder at the Vicarage, a guest appearance in the Vic & Bob series Catterick in 2004 and the live 2005 remake of the classic science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment.

Other famous literary sleuths who were brought to the screen include Charlie Chan, Ellery Queen, Nancy Drew, Nero Wolfe, and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

The various subsequent notices of Shennong include Anthony Christie's Chinese Mythology, which references Shennong ( as Shen-nung ) six times, three times with pictures, according to the 1968 index.

His acting performances include Wiċċ imb Wiċċ ( Face to Face ; 2002 ), Divorzju bi Prova ( Divorce by Trial ; 2003 ), Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap ( 2004 ), King Lear ( 2005 ), All My Sons ( 2006 ), etc.

Other roles include Lanscombe in an episode of the 2005 series of Agatha Christie's Poirot (" After the Funeral ").

Other Flamborough communities include: Carlisle, Christie's Corners, Clappison's Corners, Copetown, Freelton, Greensville, Lynden, Kirkwall, Millgrove, Mountsberg, Orkney, Rockton, Troy, Sheffield, Valens, and Westover.

Other productions include " The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ", an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot, and the films Stardust and The Wolfman, and the 1967 motion picture version of Doctor Dolittle.

Sambourne's descendants include grandson Oliver Messel ( an acclaimed set designer and architect ), great-grandson the Earl of Snowdon ( the photographer and documentary filmmaker ), and great-great-grandson Viscount Linley ( the furniture designer and chairman of Christie's auction house ).

Independent productions distributed by ITV include programming produced by Wall to Wall ( Ancient Egyptians, The Story Of Us ), Darlow Smithson Productions ( Seconds From Disaster ), Wark Clements ( A Mother's Journey ), Aardman Animations ( Creature Comforts ), Chorion ( Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot ), Carnival Films ( Rosemary & Thyme ) and Red Productions ( Bob and Rose, Second Coming ).

Well-known to television audiences, Anthony ’ s numerous credits include ITV's Murder in Suburbia, Agatha Christie's Poirot, a regular role in the award winning soap opera Night & Day ( ITV ), Hotel!

During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.

* Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ), featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in one of Christie's best-known works

Hugely popular with audiences, the films employed the common murder mystery trope — familiar from English detective stories such as Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express — of assembling all of the characters for the climatic revelation of the culprit.

Vinkovci and its rail station are featured in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express as the place where the Orient Express breaks down.

She was Jessica Marbles, a sleuth based on Agatha Christie's Jane Marple, in the 1976 murder mystery spoof, Murder by Death, and she made her last film in 1980 as Sophie in Die Laughing.

The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4: 50 from Paddington.

* Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia ( 1936 ), Hercule Poirot's Christmas ( 1938 ), And Then There Were None ( 1939 )

Agatha Christie's room at the Hotel Pera Palas in Istanbul, where she wrote Murder on the Orient Express

* The Adventure Company developed a point-and-click adventure based on Agatha Christie's novel, Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express.

In The Observers issue of November 15, 1936, in a review section entitled " Supreme de Poirot ", " Torquemada " ( Edward Powys Mathers ) said, " I was not the only one who thought that Poirot or his creator had gone a little off the rails in Murder in Mesopotamia, which means that others beside myself will rejoice at Mrs. Christie's brilliant come-back in Cards on the Table.

In describing this knife, he reveals the solution to Murder on the Orient Express: a most unusual example of Christie's occasional references to Poirot's former cases acting as a spoiler.

Christie's notebooks are open to imaginative interpretation and coloring in hindsight, and John Curran argues in his book Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks that Sleeping Murder was still being planned at the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s.

The correspondence files of Christie's literary agents, Edmund Cork and Harold Ober, show that Christie's royalty statement for 15 March 1940 states that the secretarial agency hired by Edmund Cork to type up Murder in Retrospect charged £ 19 13s.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was adapted as a 103-minute drama transmitted in the U. K. on ITV Sunday January 2, 2000, as a special episode in their series, Agatha Christie's Poirot.

This approach shows Christie's commitment to experimenting with point of view, famously exemplified by The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, partly because many of the early TV episodes " Agatha Christie's Poirot " were adaptations of the short stories, in most of which he appeared, or were stories into which he had been introduced in the course of adaptation ( e. g. Murder in the Mews ).

Christie's experiments with first-person narration, especially in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, saw her attempt to expand the formal resources of the detective novel.

Hastings has been portrayed on film and television by several actors, including Robert Morley in The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ); Jonathan Cecil in three TV films-Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ); and most notably, Hugh Fraser, who has portrayed Hastings alongside David Suchet's Poirot in 41 of the 49 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast up until 2003.

* A fragment of Scene Two, Act Four of The Duchess of Malfi is shown in the 1987 BBC TV film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel Sleeping Murder

The Armstrong kidnapping case in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by the tragedy as well.