As Poirot learns from speaking to them during the first half of the novel, none of the quintet has an obvious motive, and while their views of the original case differ in some respects there is no immediate reason to suppose that the verdict in the case was wrong.

Nevertheless Poirot views Andersen as the monster Geryon who he is determined to destroy.

Though this may be the first published book of Miss Agatha Christie, she betrays the cunning of an old hand … You must wait for the last-but-one chapter in the book for the last link in the chain of evidence that enabled Mr. Poirot to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it really belonged.

Poirot sees an immediate link between the two Polish women and the Stymphalean Birds.

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.

However, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to the Big Four so that they would not torture and kill his wife.

In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ).

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.

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.

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.

This is the first of the Poirot novels in which lesbianism ( between a woman and her companion ) is discussed as a possible motive.

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.

In Triangle at Rhodes, Poirot again witnesses an apparent liaison between two married people.

She published thirteen Poirot novels between 1935 and 1942 out of a total of eighteen novels in that period.

Poirot arranges a meeting between them and says that Norton must not speak to anyone further of what he has seen.

The Burgh Island sea tractor also appears as the method of transport between the mainland and the island in Evil Under the Sun ( 2001 film ) TV series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot.

* Poirot refers in the first chapter to a case in which the resemblance between his client and a soap manufacturer proved significant.

Struck by this coincidence as he is, Poirot cannot see a connection between an absconding bank clerk and a missing cook.

Poirot did go ( but not in disguise ) and, pretending to be " customers " overheard a conversation between some of the Chinamen about the death of Wu Ling and the fact that Lester certainly had the papers.

When Japp next visits, Poirot immediately guesses that the knife used to kill Mrs Carrington has been found by the side of the line after between Weston ( the first stop after Bristol on the Plymouth line ) and Taunton ( the next stop after that ) and that a paper boy who sold items to Mrs Carrington has been interviewed.

In their flat one night, the conversation between Poirot and Hastings turns to the latter's belief that Poirot has never known failure in his professional career.

Afterwards Poirot visits the kitchen to complement the daily cook, Mrs Ross, on the meal and particularly the pudding.

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 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.

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.