The main difference between Ja ' far in " The Three Apples " and later fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

In 1963, a film adaptation entitled Murder at the Gallop was released by MGM however this version replaced Poirot with the character of Miss Marple, played by Margaret Rutherford.

The main difference between Ja ' far in "" and later fictional detectives such as Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

Hastings, however, appeared only intermittently in those Poirot novels and stories written after 1925 and only once in those written after 1937.

Hastings's potential murder had, however, been averted by Poirot's presence of mind in forcing drugged hot chocolate upon him on the night that he had intended it to take place, the same action resolving Poirot to take action ; he knew that Hastings was not a murderer, but if he had not intervened Hastings would have hanged for a crime while the ' true ' murderer would have escaped seemingly innocent.

Shortly afterwards, however, a second death in suspiciously similar circumstances and with many of the same people present puts both Poirot and a team of sleuths on the trail of a poisoner whose motive is not clear.

In the portmanteau was a false packet that the real villain of the piece took out with a duplicate key and threw overboard – this was Mr Shaw who claims he was off work for two weeks due to bronchitis whilst these events transpired, however Poirot caught him by asking if he can smoke a cigar ( a request which Mr. Shaw should have declined as he couldn't stand smoke with his bronchitis problem ).

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.

Poirot however is convinced that Hugh is sane and begins his investigations, asking Diana to arrange for him to spend the night in the manor.

Poirot sees a marble seat in the recess whose arm-ends are carved in the form of lions ' heads and wonders if they could have caused the wound to Reedburn's head however the angle at which the body was lying and the lack of blood on the seat works against this theory.

She does however describe the young man that Poirot and Hastings saw the previous day in the booking office.

Once the preliminary police work has been done, Poirot reveals Shaitana's strange mention of a " collection " to the other three with whom he played bridge.

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

Poirot reveals in the denouement that Norman Gale is none other than Anne's new husband, and that his plans-almost certainly including the eventual murder of Anne herself-had been laid well in advance.

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.

Poirot reveals that Leopold had been blackmailing Joyce's murderer and had got in over his head.

When negatived Poirot reveals that no one noticed the murderer because he came in a butcher's cart.

Poirot reveals that Doctor Quentin was number 4, who entered the house and gave Paynter an injection of yellow jasmine rather than strychnine.

Ingles leaves for China, and Poirot reveals an odd fact-he has a twin brother.

In the denouement, Poirot reveals the main emotional undercurrents of the story.

In it, Poirot reveals that he wore a false moustache as well as a wig and explains that X was Norton, a man who had perfected the technique of which Iago in Othello ( like a character in Ervine's play ) is master: applying just such psychological pressure as is needed to provoke someone to commit murder, where normally they would let the other live and dismiss their desires as simply the heat of the moment, without anyone ever truly realising what he is doing.

In the denouement Poirot reveals that " Sir " George Stubbs is none other than Amy Folliat's younger son, James, who had deserted during WWI.

Poirot reveals that the first murder-in which the murderer could not have predicted who would get the poisoned glass and had no motive to kill the eventual victim-had only been a " dress rehearsal " for the second murder.

The Times Literary Supplement of 31 January 1935 admitted that " Very few readers will guess the murderer before Hercule Poirot reveals the secret ", but complained that the motive of the murderer " injures an otherwise very good story ".

At a meeting with all the suspects, Poirot reveals that Theresa took the arsenic.

Now, the story complete, Poirot gathers the suspects together and reveals the murderer – Robin Upward.

When the next day this predicted event occurs, Poirot reveals the truth ; Davenheim knew of his bank's financial troubles and started to prepare a new life for himself.

Poirot reveals to an astonished Ferrier that the idea to use Thelma Anderson was his and that Dagmar was in on the plan.

As to who is responsible ... Poirot reveals that Admiral Chandler has inherited the insanity of his family but Hugh is not his biological son.

Poirot reveals that the strength with which the knife was plunged into Cronshaw meant that a man was responsible for the crime.

A shamefaced Mr Waverly confesses to Poirot and reveals that the child is presently with his old nurse.

In The Nemean Lion, he sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, and saved her from having to face justice by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who himself was plotting murder and was unwise enough to let Poirot discover this.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

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.

In Agatha Christie's, " Appointment with Death " ( 1938 ), the mysterious and enigmatic Petra is the setting for a murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot.

Shaitana jokes about Poirot's visit to the snuff box exhibition, and claims that he has a better " collection " that Poirot would enjoy: individuals who have got away with murder.

As there seems to be no conventional way to prove which of them has committed Shaitana's murder, Poirot suggests that the group of sleuths delve into the past and uncover the murders that the dead man thought he knew about.

Poirot points out that in the third rubber of bridge on the night of Shaitana's murder, a grand slam occurred.

Despard suggests that one of the gathered party murder Poirot, and then watch his ghost come back to solve the crime.

Poirot pieces together events surrounding the murder.

* Hercule Poirot – retired detective who investigates the central murder

M. Poirot, the hero of The Mysterious Affair at Stiles and other brilliant pieces of detective deduction, comes out of his temporary retirement like a giant refreshed, to undertake the investigation of a peculiarly brutal and mysterious murder.

Poirot becomes upset and informs Japp about the date the murder will occur.

While Poirot is investigating Alice's murder, Cust marks the Andover destination in his map.

Nearly a month after Alice's murder, ABC sends another letter, directing Poirot to Bexhill.

Despite a flimsy alibi, Poirot reasons out that Franz would not have the required brains to pass off her murder as a serial killing.

Poirot explains to the Legion that the real ABC is not a homicidal maniac, but a sane man trying to pass a murder as a part of several serial killings.

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.

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.

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.