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Hercule Poirot 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, and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
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Agatha Christie's Poirot, or simply Poirot, 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. David Suchet starred as the fictional detective. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada and on PBS and A&E in the US.
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Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories is a short story collection by Agatha Christie published in the UK only in November 1991 by HarperCollins. It was not published in the US but all the stories contained within it had previously been published in American volumes. It retailed at £13.99. It contains two stories with Hercule Poirot, two with Parker Pyne, two with Harley Quin and two gothic tales.
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Lists of adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie:
John Curran is an Irish literary scholar and archivist, best known as an expert on the work of Dame Agatha Christie, English author of detective fiction and the world's bestselling novelist. He was born in Dublin and for years edited the Agatha Christie newsletter, subscriptions to which are handled through the author's official website. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Christie at Trinity College. He served as a National Trust consultant during the restoration of Christie's Devon residence, the Greenway Estate.
Hercule Poirot is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and short stories adapted by Michael Bakewell, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1985 and 2007. With the exception of the first two adaptations, the series stars John Moffatt as Poirot.
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- ↑ Hobbs, James (2018). "Fictional World of Agatha Christie" . Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- 1 2 Webb, Mary (2017). "Ariadne Oliver". All About Agatha Christie. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ↑ Hobbs, James (2018). "Poirot's Allies". Hercule Poirot Central. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ Bunson, Matthew (2000). The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia . Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0671028312.
- ↑ Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0007310562.
- ↑ Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0062065421.
- ↑ Christie, Agatha (1963). The Clocks. HarperCollins. ISBN 0007121091.
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