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  1. But assumed that he could either be an active detective , a consulting, detective ,or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required. One thing
  2. 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
  3. Dumb Witness when Hastings arrives in England for business. Ariadne Oliver The, detective ,novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature. Like
  4. Was fond of Miss Marple. However, it is interesting to note that the Belgian, detective ,'s titles outnumber the Marple titles more than two to one. This is largely
  5. He concerns himself with studying famous unsolved cases of the past and reading, detective ,novels. He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly
  6. Novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on, detective ,fiction," Who Cares Who Killed Roger Across? " Aside from Roger Across, the
  7. The End and Then There Were None, there are multiple victims. Finally,the, detective ,organizes a meeting of all the suspects and slowly denounces the guilty party
  8. About Poirot's retirement. Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private, detective ,agency take place before his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he
  9. American literary critic Edmund Wilson, who was dismissive of Christie and the, detective ,fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay," Who Cares Who Killed Roger
  10. David Sachet as Inspector Lapp, just before he himself began to play the famous, detective , (Ironically, it is reputed that David Sachet highlights his performance as
  11. Series was greatly admired by such notable writers and critics of mystery and, detective ,fiction as Every Queen (Frederic Danny),Anthony Boucher, Vincent Sterrett
  12. Eccentric detective , stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard, detective , Inspector Lapp ". For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective
  13. For Poirot's retirement, but assumed that he could either be an active, detective , a consulting detective or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate
  14. Which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private, detective , Between the world wars, Poirot travelled all over Europe and the Middle East
  15. The efforts were unsuccessful and eventually withdrawn. Derleth's mystery and, detective ,fiction also included a series of works set in Sac Prairie and featuring Judge
  16. Romances under the name Mary Westcott, but she is best remembered for her 66, detective , novels and 14 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercules
  17. Are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes. Usually,the, detective ,either stumbles across the murder or is called upon by an old acquaintance, who
  18. He could either be an active detective , a consulting detective or a retired, detective ,as the needs of the immediate case required. One thing that is consistent about
  19. Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based, detective , depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common
  20. Admits," I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric, detective , stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective , Inspector Lapp
  21. A famous, virtually wordless sequence, lasting over eight minutes, shows the, detective , disguised as an impoverished veteran, wandering the streets in search of the
  22. Doyle with Sherlock Holmes, Christie was to become increasingly tired of her, detective ,Poirot. In fact, by the end of the 1930s,Christie confided to her diary that
  23. In many of the novels and stories. Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private, detective , not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the
  24. He is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing, detective ,to a subsidiary character. In Cat Among the Pigeons Poirot's entrance is so
  25. Nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another, detective ,story; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective
  26. Is called upon by an old acquaintance, who is somehow involved. Gradually,the, detective ,interrogates each suspect, examines the scene of the crime and makes a note of
  27. And cigar ash. From this point on he establishes himself as a psychological, detective ,who proceeds not by a painstaking examination of the crime scene, but by
  28. Detective, Inspector Lapp ". For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his, detective ,stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. August Duping, and his anonymous
  29. Humorous self-caricature. Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the, detective ,she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven
  30. At Styles was published in 1920 and introduced the long-running character, detective ,Hercules Poirot, who appeared in 33 of Christie's novels and 54 short stories.
  31. Creep. " However, unlike Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her, detective ,off while he was still popular. She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was
  32. John Cheese. Television David Suchet has starred as the eponymous, detective ,in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ITV series since 1989. Sachet has stated
  33. Stray Dog. The most celebrated of Kurosawa's works from this period, it is a, detective ,movie (perhaps the first important Japanese film in that genre) that explores
  34. J. M. Barrie) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of, detective ,writing in The Red House Mystery (although this was severely criticized by
  35. Well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective , fiction,science fiction and biography. A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth
  36. Detective story; and after another two years he was being told that writing a, detective ,story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books. He
  37. Mood of Japan during its painful postwar recovery through the story of a young, detective , played by Minute, and his obsession over his handgun, stolen by a penniless
  38. And The Secret Adversary. In some cases this is with the collusion of the, detective ,involved. Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence, end with the
  39. Perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the, detective ,himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.
  40. 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
  41. Solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all, detective ,novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on
  42. Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the, detective ,in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920. Not only was
  43. S Final Journey). The series features a (Sherlock Holmes-styled) British, detective ,named Solar Pons, of Preyed Street in London. The series was greatly admired by
  44. A tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated, detective ,novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all
  45. I have dealt with policemen all my life and I know. He could pass as a, detective ,to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself. " — Hercules Poirot
  46. By Germany (which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled, detective ,would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country
  47. Dog, a film released a year after Drunken Angel. In the climactic scene,the, detective ,Murasaki is fighting furiously with the murderer USA in a muddy field. The
  48. 1926) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a, detective ,story, he was told that what the country wanted from a" Punch humorist" was a
  49. 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188. Hercules Poirot (;) is a fictional Belgian, detective ,created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie
  50. The Great War (WW1) forced him to leave for England. Career as a private, detective ,:" I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked.

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