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Poirot and Investigates
** Poirot Investigates
* 1931, John Lane ( The Bodley Head, February 1931 ( As part of the Agatha Christie Omnibus along with The Murder on the Links and Poirot Investigates ), Hardcover ( Priced at seven shillings and sixpence, a cheaper edition at five shillings was published in October 1932 )
This is the second Christie crime book not to carry a dedication, Poirot Investigates being the first.
Wharmby had small roles in programmes such as Troy Kennedy Martin's nuclear thriller Edge of Darkness ( 1985 ), Brookside ( 1985 ), All Creatures Great and Small ( 1988 ), A Very British Coup ( 1988 ), Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1990 ), Heartbeat ( 1994 ) and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates ( 1996 ).
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924.
Miss Agatha Christie, however, has invested the type with a new vitality in her Hercule Poirot, and in Poirot Investigates she relates some more of his adventures.
All of the stories contained in Poirot Investigates have been adapted as episodes in the ITV television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet in the role of Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.
At first she meekly accepted Lane's strictures about what would be published by them but by the time of Poirot Investigates Christie insisted that their suggested title of The Grey Cells of Monsieur Poirot was not to her liking and that the book was to be included in the tally of six books within her contract-the Bodley Head opposed this because the stories had already been printed in The Sketch.
* Poirot Investigates at the official Agatha Christie website
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This may suggest discarded chips from the workshop, but in fact the standard here is distinctly higher than the stories in Poirot Investigates, which were the ones Christie did publish at the time.

Poirot and 1924
* The device also appears in Agatha Christie's Poirot short story The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan ( 1924 ), as the main character, Hercule Poirot, is mistaken for the man in the newspaper contest, " Lucky Len ", while he's on holiday at the seaside.

Poirot and Chocolate
In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.
Poirot replies that the last time was 28 years ago, probably a reference to The Chocolate Box, a short story from Poirot's Early Cases.
* In Act 3 Chapter 5 Poirot says that once he had a failure in his professional career that happened in Belgium, hinting at the story The Chocolate Box.
In The Chocolate Box story the exact date is not mentioned, but in the novel Peril at End House, chapter 15, Poirot says that the events took place in 1893.
* The Chocolate Box case is mentioned on the novel Peril at End House ( 1932 ) in chapter 15, when Poirot tells Commander Challenger that he indeed had failures in the past.
* 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 Lady
Later, Thora, Carmichael's assistant, is fired by a delusional Lady Clarke, who tells Poirot that she saw Thora talking to a shabbily dressed stranger on the day Carmichael was murdered.
In 2004, the novel was broadcast as a television movie featuring David Suchet as Poirot, Sarah Miles as Lady Angkatell and Megan Dodds as Henrietta Savernake, as part of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot.
Poirot labels the five alternative suspects “ the five little pigs ”: they comprise Phillip Blake (" went to the market "); Philip's brother, Meredith Blake (" stayed at home "); Elsa Greer ( now Lady Dittisham, " had roast beef "); Cecilia Williams, the governess (" had none "); and Angela Warren, Caroline ’ s younger half-sister (" went ' Wee!
When Poirot approaches Meredith Blake he introduces himself as a friend of Lady Mary Lytton-Gore, a character known from Three Act Tragedy.
Arriving at Mon Repos Poirot speaks with the daunting and domineering Lady Astwell who tells him that Sir Reuben's brother and business partner, Victor, is also a guest in the house.
Poirot persuades Lady Astwell to partake in hypnosis to recall events of the night of the murder.
Both Poirot and Hastings remember society gossip from three years back that linked Rolf and Lady Yardly.
After Mary has gone Poirot goes out and Hastings receives a visit from Lady Yardly ( she was advised to visit Poirot by her friend Mary Cavendish, who appears in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ).
When Poirot finds this out he arranges to visit Yardly Chase and is there when the lights go out and Lady Yardly is attacked by a Chinese man and her jewel stolen.
Poirot is consulted by Lady Willard, the widow of the famous Egyptologist, Sir John Willard.
Poirot meets the petulant Lady Hoggin and her put-upon companion, Miss Amy Carnaby, who is clearly frightened of her employer.
Poirot tells them their activities must stop and that the money must be returned to Lady Hoggin although he is sure that he will be able to persuade her husband not to involve the police.
Poirot visits Mertonshire where an old friend, Lady Carmichael, gives him details of the Grant family.
Lady Carmichael is thrilled to think that Poirot has visited to investigate some special crime but the detective tells her he is simply there to tame four wild horses.
Some time later, back at Lady Carmichael's, Poirot tells Sheila that her photograph has been recognised.
Four of his guests had the opportunity to take the items – Mr Johnston, a South African millionaire only just arrived in London ; Countess Vera Rossakoff, a refugee from the Russian revolution ; Bernard Parker, a young and effeminate agent for Mr Hardman, and Lady Runcorn, a middle-aged society lady whose aunt is a kleptomaniac. Poirot examines the scene of the crime and finds a man's glove and a cigarette case with the initials " BP ".
At this juncture, Lady Weardale reappears and asks Poirot if the matter could be dropped if the plans were returned.
Lavington calls on Poirot at his invitation but laughs at his request to return the letter, saying that he will reduce his demand to eighteen thousand pounds and Lady Millicent has until Tuesday when he returns from Paris to find the sum.
Poirot points out that a woman of Lady Millicent's class might dress shoddily but would never wear such low-quality shoes.

Poirot and Lost
In 1992, writers David Renwick and Michael Baker received an Edgar Award in the category " Best Episode in a TV Series " from the Mystery Writers of America for the Second Series episode The Lost Mine, which, like the other Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes, aired in the U. S. as part of the PBS anthology series Mystery!
In 1992, Renwick and co-writer Michael Baker received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Poirot episode " The Lost Mine ", which aired in the U. S. as part of the PBS anthology series Mystery !.

Poirot and US
ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, which aired in the US on A & E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.
The novel's plot is based on the 1923 Poirot short story The Plymouth Express ( much later collected in book form in the US in 1951 in The Under Dog and Other Stories and in the UK in 1974 in Poirot's Early Cases ).
* Four and Twenty Blackbirds was first published in the UK in the Strand Magazine in issue 603 in March 1941 under the title of Poirot and the Regular Customer although its first true printing was in the US in The Mystery Magazine in April 1926.
Peter Lord says that he has been recommended to consult Poirot by Dr. John Stillingfleet on the basis of Poirot ’ s brilliant performance in the case related in the short story, The Dream, which had been printed two years earlier in issue 566 of The Strand ( magazine ) and later printed in book form in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding in 1960 in the UK and in The Regatta Mystery in the US in 1939.
Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on July 5 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client
The book was first serialised in the US in The Saturday Evening Post in seven instalments from November 7 ( Volume 209, Number 19 ) to December 19, 1936 ( Volume 209, Number 25 ) under the title Poirot Loses a Client with illustrations by Henry Raleigh.
The collection comprises twelve of her fourteen stories featuring detective James Parker Pyne ; the two remaining stories, Problem at Pollensa Bay and The Regatta Mystery were later collected in The Regatta Mystery in 1939 in the US and in Problem at Pollensa Bay in the UK in 1991 although these were originally stories featuring Hercule Poirot when they were first published in the Strand Magazine in 1935 and 1936 respectively.
A television adaptation of the novel for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot was broadcast on September 28, 2008, in the UK and on June 21, 2009 in the US.

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