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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The novel was published in the UK in June 1926 by William Collins, Sons, [2] having previously been serialised as Who Killed Ackroyd? between July and September 1925 in the London Evening News.
It is the second novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6), [3] and the US edition at $1.75. [2] The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving ...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.
The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 [1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
Curtain (written about 1940, published 1975) also published as Curtain: Poirot's Last Case; Stories featuring Hercule Poirot also appear in the collections The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939), The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948), Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950), The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ...
Hercule Poirot (UK: / ˈ ɛər k juː l ˈ p w ɑːr oʊ /, US: / h ɜːr ˈ k juː l p w ɑː ˈ r oʊ / [1]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. [1] In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.
ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver. The adaptation – with significant differences from the novel – was written by Nick Dear and aired in the US on A&E Network in December 2005 and in the UK on ITV1 in March 2006.
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