The first episode, broadcast in 1945, was introduced by Agatha Christie herself.ġ2. In the United States, Harold Huber played the role of Poirot in a series of radio adventures, most of which were original stories. Poirot’s obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times in 1975, in advance of the publication of Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case – the first time a fictional character received this treatment.ġ1. Poirot’s moustache was so important that Agatha Christie was asked to approve its appearance in the 1965 comedy mystery film The Alphabet Murders, which starred Tony Randall as the detective.ġ0. He uses a special preparation called ‘Revivit’ to conceal his grey hair.ĩ. Poirot takes great pride in his appearance from his immaculately groomed moustache to his patent leather shoes. The 1937 BBC production made use of the cabaret setting, as Christie’s script played out the story in-between a selection of musical numbers.Ĩ. On the radio, one of Poirot’s most notable appearances was in Yellow Iris. Christie’s one-act play The Wasp’s Nest debuted on the medium, with two live performances starring Francis L. Poirot first appeared on television as early as 1937, less than a year after the BBC launched its service. Poirot is unhappy with disorder and once said that he finds it 'really insupportable that every hen lays an egg of a different size! What symmetry can there be on the breakfast table?' He’s also known to have refused to eat an irregularly shaped loaf of bread.Ħ. When first published in the magazine The Sketch, the Poirot short story ‘The Chocolate Box’ featured the sleuth mentioning his ‘little sister Yvonne’.ĥ. He is a retired Belgian police officer turned world famous private detective, but Christie had initially considered different detectives for her mystery, including a schoolboy or a scientist.Ĥ. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side…The neatness of his attire was almost incredible I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.'ģ. The first description of Poirot was by Hastings in The Mysterious Affair at Styles who said, 'He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity.

In her initial version Poirot explained all in a court room setting, but this was changed to a more familiar drawing-room discussion by the time it was published.Ģ.

Hercule Poirot first appeared in Agatha Christie’s first published novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which debuted in 1920. We asked Mark Aldridge, author of Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World to update our Hercule Poirot facts to include some of his latest findings.ġ.

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