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Cards on the Table is perhaps the most perfect of the little grey cells." [10] The Scotsman (19 November 1936) wrote: "There was a time when M. Hercule Poirot thought of going into retirement in order to devote himself to the cultivation of marrows. Fortunately, the threat was never carried out; and in Mrs Christie's latest novel the little ...
Cards on the Table was adapted as a 2005 episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot. David Westhead played the Battle character, renamed Superintendent Jim Wheeler. An upcoming Netflix miniseries dramatising The Seven Dials Mystery will star Martin Freeman as Battle.
He features as Hercule Poirot's good friend in Cards on the Table (1936) and Death on the Nile (1937). He appears for the last time in Sparkling Cyanide (1945), and as with his first appearance, Poirot is not a character in the novel. He is known for his patience, composure, and ability to detect facts quickly without anyone else noticing.
Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot (UK: / p w ɑːr oʊ / [1]), is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie 's famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator Hercule Poirot .
Hercule Poirot - Famous Belgian detective asked to reinvestigate the case. Ariadne Oliver - Novelist and old acquaintance of Poirot who is working with Robin Upward on a play. Superintendent Spence - An old friend of Poirot's who asks him to look into the case. James Gordon Bentley - Former lodger of Mrs McGinty wrongly convicted of her murder
Ariadne Oliver does not function as a detective, even in the novel in which she appears without Poirot (The Pale Horse).In Cards on the Table, she does interview some of the suspects, which in turn allows her to discover a hidden motive that even the police were unable to find; in Elephants Can Remember, she again interviews witnesses, but none of the essential ones.
Thirteen at Dinner is a 1985 British-American made-for-television mystery film featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. [1] Adapted by Rod Browning from the 1933 Agatha Christie novel Lord Edgware Dies, [2] it was directed by Lou Antonio and starred Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, Jonathan Cecil, Diane Keen, Bill Nighy and David Suchet, who was later to play Poirot in the long-running ...
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. In the course of The Big Four, Dulcie's life is threatened by members of an international conspiracy. Hastings is forced to risk Poirot's life in return for her promised safety.