The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

Hastings's appearances in Poirot's later novels are restricted to a few cases in which he participates on his periodic returns to England from Argentina ; Poirot comments in The ABC Murders that he enjoys Hastings's visits because he always has his most interesting cases when Hastings is with him.

Poirot visits a sunken garden built for Mrs. Llewellyn-Smythe in an abandoned quarry, where he meets Michael Garfield, the handsome and talented young man who designed the garden.

Captain Hastings visits Poirot and finds that Poirot is leaving for South America.

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

The credits mistakenly refer to Lionel as a Cloade-however, his surname is ' Woodward ' ( as revealed by Kathy when she visits Poirot at the beginning of the adaptation ).

In Chapter 21, Poirot visits a solicitor by the name of Mr. Endicott to confirm his suspicions of Nigel Chapman.

The novel is notable for the fact that Poirot never visits any of the crime scenes or speaks to any of the witnesses or suspects.

Colin updates Poirot on succeeding visits, teasing him for not yet finding the solution.

When a young woman visits Hercule Poirot to seek his help regarding a murder that she believes herself to have committed, she is appalled by his age and leaves with her story untold.

Poirot visits it and finds Miss Carnaby, her invalid sister, Emily and a Pekingese dog, Augustus.

Poirot visits this address and was told the girl, an Italian, had returned to her home country.

Poirot visits Percy Perry, the seedy editor of The X-Ray News who he has heard has previously accepted sums of money for not printing stories.

Poirot goes to France and visits Miss Pope's establishment at Neuilly.

Poirot places advertisements in the newspaper enquiring as to the whereabouts of Eliza and several days later he is successful in locating her when she visits Poirot's rooms.

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.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

As early as Murder on the Links, where he still largely depends on clues, Poirot mocks a rival " bloodhound " detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues that had been established in detective fiction by the example of Sherlock Holmes: footprints, fingerprints and cigar ash.

A marked difference from the text exists in Moran's portrayal, where she is shown to be an attractive, fashionable and emotional woman showing an occassional soft corner for Poirot.

They also meet in England where Poirot often helps Japp solve a case and lets him take credit in return for special favours.

Poirot gathers Oliver, Battle, Despard, Rhoda, and Roberts at his home, where he makes a surprising announcement: the true murderer of both Shaitana and Mrs. Lorrimer is not Anne, but Dr. Roberts.

Not content with solving the mystery, Poirot invites Mr. Clancy to the Denouncement where he gleefully allows the Novelist to see how a Real Life Detective solves a case, to both men's great enjoyment, and finally in a single stroke Poirot makes a romantic match by pairing off Jane Grey with the younger of the archaeologists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The role of Japp is played by Philip Jackson in the British TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where Hercule Poirot's character is played by David Suchet.

Before Suchet took on the role of Poirot, he had previously played Japp himself in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, where Peter Ustinov played Poirot.

She is more usually used for comic relief or to provide a deus ex machina through her intuitive or sudden insights, a function that is especially apparent in Third Girl, in which she furnishes Poirot with virtually every important clue, or in The Pale Horse, where she inadvertently helps the investigators to determine the type of poison used to kill the murder victims, saving the life of another character.

* In Agatha Christie's 1947 novel The Labours of Hercules from the short story " The Erymanthian Boar " detective Hercule Poirot uses a heliograph to communicate from the top of Rochers Neiges where he is trapped to the police at the mountain's base.

Hastings is put on board a ship for Belgium, where he is reunited with his supposedly dead friend, Poirot.

Here is no Hercule's vein: indeed Poirot would find little worthy of his great gift of detection in these situations, where one knows from the start that everything will come delightfully right in the end.

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.

Christie is purposefully vague, as Poirot is thought to be elderly even in the early Poirot novels, and in An Autobiography she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920.

They later emigrate to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a " very unhappy old man.

His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis ( 1951 ), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus ( 1960 ), Captain Vere in Billy Budd ( 1962 ), an old man surviving a totalitarian future in Logan's Run ( 1976 ), and, in half a dozen films, Hercule Poirot, a part he first played in Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

* Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective displaced by the war to England ; Hastings ' old friend

Poirot was described as a " delightful little old man ".

# Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp-Another old friend of Hercule Poirot, who is assigned the case.

Hercule Poirot asks his old friend, an ex-superintendent named Spence, to give him a list of murders which had taken place years before and that could possibly be the murder that Joyce claimed to have witnessed.

Poirot employs an old friend, Mr. Goby, to investigate the family.

The old fashioned name of the inspector, Raoul Dusentier, reminds of famous French-speaking inspectors names such as Hercule Poirot or Joseph Rouletabille.

After a year apart Hercule Poirot, now crippled with arthritis, is reunited with his old companion Captain Hastings, who has since become a widower.

It is not one of stories about her famous French detective, Hercule Poirot, having instead Miss Marple, a little old lady sleuth who doesn't seem to do much but who sets the stage for the final exposure of the murderer.

The mystery can be solved at an old English country house called Kings Lacey where it will be arranged for Poirot to join a family there for their Christmas celebrations, supposedly to experience a typical English Christmas.

Poirot is made to sit in the light of a bright desk lamp and he is not impressed with the man, dressed in an old patchwork dressing gown and wearing thick glasses, feeling that he is stagy and a mountebank and doesn ’ t possess the charisma he would expect from such a rich and powerful person.

And yet, when the evil-hearted old tyrant has been murdered at last and Poirot considers the suspects, one follows with genuine interest the unraveling of even unexciting clues.

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is also traveling in Iraq ; his old friend Dr. Reilly asks him to solve the crime, on behalf of Dr. Leidner.

In the first place, on receiving a delayed letter from a dead old lady Poirot blindly follows a little grey hunch.

by Michael Innes, Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham and Careless Corpse by C. Daly King ) when he said, " Only Mrs. Christie keeps closer to the old tradition, and this time she adds much doggy lore and a terrier so fascinating that even Poirot himself is nearly driven from the centre of the stage.

Poirot, disillusioned by the “ senseless cruel brutality ” of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard.

* Introducing Poirot at the beginning of the story as an old friend of Miss Bulstrode's, rather than two-thirds of the way through as in the novel.

Frustrated, Colin approaches Hercule Poirot, an old friend of his father, to investigate the case.

Poirot learns that Hugh's mother died when he was ten years old in a boating accident when she was out with the Admiral, and that she was previously engaged to Frobisher before he went off to India with the British Army.

Poirot breaks the news of the drugs and listens to the cries of anger and sworn threats of the old man against whoever is getting his girls into trouble.