The same joke-translation is mentioned in Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun by Patrick Redfern to Hercule Poirot – a prank which inadvertently gives Poirot the answer to the murder.

Meanwhile, a mathematics teacher named Elizabeth Whittaker, who was also present at the party, gives Hercule Poirot an important piece of evidence when she reveals that while the party-goers were playing Snapdragon, Elizabeth went out to hall and saw Rowena Drake coming out of the lavatory on the first floor landing.

") Later in the book, Christie gives the impression that in fact " Achille " was Poirot himself in disguise.

* French: Poirot quitte la scène ( Poirot leaves the stage / Poirot gives up the stage )

Three chapters were given different names: chapter nine ( eleven in the book ) was called Something Good instead of Murder, chapter twenty-six ( twenty-eight in the book ) was called Poirot hedges instead of Poirot plays the Squirrel and chapter twenty-eight ( chapter thirty in the book ) was called Katherine's letters instead of Miss Viner gives judgement.

She gives the game away by attempting to attack Poirot but is held back by Stillingfleet.

En route to Nasse House, Poirot gives a lift to two female hitch-hikers – one Dutch and one Italian – who are staying at the youth hostel adjoining the Nasse House grounds.

Poirot is contacted by Desmond Burton-Cox, Celia Ravenscroft's fiancé, who gives him the names of two governesses who had served the Ravenscroft family, who he thinks may be able to explain what happened.

* In chapter 18 of the novel, Poirot gives a list of murderers from previous cases of his, more precisely The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ), Death in the Clouds ( 1935 ), The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 1928 ) and The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ).

Once Hastings is back in London, Poirot gives Hastings his theory – Mrs Middleton never existed.

Poirot meets Ridgeway at the Cheshire Cheese who gives him the facts of the case: He was entrusted by his uncle and the other general manager, Mr Shaw, of taking a million dollars of Liberty Bonds to New York to extend the bank ’ s credit line there.

It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective.

This comment gives Poirot pause for thought and after his visitor has gone, Poirot gets acquainted with the exploits of his legendary namesake, deciding his final cases will mimic Hercules ' Twelve Labours.

Poirot's meaning is quite clear and the shaken man gives Poirot his cheque back, telling him to keep the money.

Poirot visits Mertonshire where an old friend, Lady Carmichael, gives him details of the Grant family.

The police leave but the Inspector gives Poirot permission to inspect the flat himself.

The screenplay followed the book closely with some minor changes and some characters omitted: in the adaptation there was only one archeologist, there was no doctor, Jane was a stewardess and in the end Poirot does not match Jane with young archeologist as mentioned in the novel and some other minor changes ( such as in the TV adaptation, Poirot takes Japp to Paris, whereas in the book he takes the French Surete detective and also in the book most of the characters have come from Le Pinet where they have been enjoying some time at the casino, whereas in the adaptation the characters have been at a tennis match in Paris.

Geniuses like Sherlock Holmes often find a use for faithful mediocrities like Dr. Watson, and by a coincidence it is the local doctor who follows Poirot round, and himself tells the story.

Poirot goes to the house and meets the doctor, a police inspector, the dead man's second wife, his daughter from his first marriage, Joanna and Hugo Cornworthy in whose office Poirot had had his meeting with Farley.

* Giles Reilly, MD, the civil doctor in Hassanieh, a longtime friend of Poirot, who suggests Leidner job to Amy Leatheran.

In a red herring that is easily spotted by those who recognise the doctor from an earlier meeting with Poirot, it seems that Stillingfleet may have kidnapped Norma.

He runs and fetches the expedition surgeon – Dr Ames-but this is a trick to get the doctor into their tent where Poirot orders Hastings to secure him but the doctor kills himself with a cyanide capsule.

Poirot explains that the Rupert was Bleibner ’ s heir and the doctor, secretly, must have been Rupert ’ s heir.

Poirot and Hastings join the doctor as he rushes round to Foscatini's flat in Regent's Court. The lift attendant there is unaware of any problems, saying that Graves, the Count's man, left half an hour earlier with no indication of anything wrong.

Poirot makes the rounds of the village, insinuating that he is connected with the Home Office and thereby generating much hypocritical murmurs of sympathy for the doctor and, more importantly, names of who said what and when.

Poirot interviews Mrs Pengelley's doctor, who at first denies that anything could be wrong but is then astounded to hear that the dead woman came to London to consult the detective.

Poirot then spoke to the dead man's doctor and discovered that M. de Saint Alard was an ardent Catholic whose friendship with M. Déroulard was being sorely strained by the political turbulence at the time.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based detective, depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of " the little grey cells " and " order and method ".

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

Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna ’ s farewell performance won ’ t be in it with yours, Poirot.

After Anne makes her gift suggestions and leaves, Poirot discovers that two pairs of the stockings are missing, confirming his suspicion that Anne is a thief, and seemingly giving weight to his suspicion that she stole from Mrs. Benson and killed her when she feared she had been discovered.

The Times Literary Supplement of November 14, 1936 stated favourably in its review by Caldwell Harpur that, " Poirot scores again, scores in two senses, for this appears to be the authoress's twentieth novel.

On page 509 of her autobiography Christie refers to the last Poirot and Miss Marple novels that she penned during the Second World War by saying she had written an extra two books during the first years of the war in anticipation of being killed in the raids, as she was working in London.

Poirot expects to unmask ABC on the Doncaster race course, but ABC strikes in a cinema hall instead, killing George Earlsfield, instead of Roger Emmanuel Downes, a logical victim sitting only two seats later.

In Chapter 19, Poirot reflects over his first case on England, where he " brought together two people who loved one another by the simple method of having one of them arrested for murder.

He is not a character in either of the two best-known Poirot novels-Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express-and of the fifteen Poirot novels published between 1920 and 1937, he appears in fewer than half.

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.

The two remain friends right up to Poirot's death, although there is little evidence regarding their possible meetings between 1937 and 1975, but we know that Hastings at least saw Poirot a year before the latter's death.

In two of the books in which he appears — The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The ABC Murders — Hastings plays a prominent role in the resolution of the mystery, with a casual observation he makes at one point in the novel leading Poirot to realise the guilty party: By mentioning that Poirot had to straighten some spill holders and ornaments in Styles, he prompts Poirot to realise that someone had moved them, thus allowing Poirot to discover a crucial piece of evidence, and when he suggests that an incorrectly addressed letter revealing the latest crime in ABC Murders was addressed that way on purpose, Poirot realises that the letter had indeed been wrongly addressed deliberately so that it would not be received until after the murderer had committed his crime, revealing that the murderer had attached greater importance to that particular murder, and wanted to be certain that it was committed.

He is prevented from doing so by Nicholas Ransom and Desmond Holland, two teenagers who had been at the Hallowe ' en party and whom Poirot had persuaded to trail Miranda.

Agatha Christie has been well represented with several seasons ' worth of stories featuring Hercule Poirot starring David Suchet as well as two versions of Miss Marple's mysteries.

Poirot is told by Madame Olivier that two men broke into her laboratory and attempted to steal her supply of radium.

Shortly afterwards the two receive a letter from Abe Ryland who was annoyed at Poirot for refusing his offer.

The two are caught by a trap ; a matchbox filled with a chemical explodes knocking Hastings unconscious and killing Poirot.