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Hercule Poirot | Retirement | Retirement
That's the way of it. Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna's farewell performance won't be in it with yours, Poirot. Dr. Burton in the Preface
Confusion surrounds Poirot's retirement. Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to at... |
Hercule Poirot | Post–World War II | Post–World War II
Poirot is less active during the cases that take place at the end of his career. Beginning with Three Act Tragedy (1934), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a subgenre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events... |
Hercule Poirot | Death | Death
On the ITV television series, Poirot died in October 1949 from complications of a heart condition at the end of Curtain. This took place at Styles Court, the scene of his first English case in 1916. In Christie's novels, he lived into the early 1970s, perhaps even until 1975 when Curtain was published.
In Cu... |
Hercule Poirot | Recurring characters | Recurring characters |
Hercule Poirot | Captain Arthur Hastings | Captain Arthur Hastings
Hastings, a former British Army officer, meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England. He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particul... |
Hercule Poirot | Mrs Ariadne Oliver | Mrs Ariadne Oliver
Detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature. Like Christie, she is not overly fond of the detective whom she is most famous for creating–in Ariadne's case, Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson. We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alco... |
Hercule Poirot | Miss Felicity Lemon | Miss Felicity Lemon
Poirot's secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, has few human weaknesses. The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister who worked ... |
Hercule Poirot | Chief Inspector James Harold Japp | Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories trying to solve cases that Poirot is working on. Japp is outgoing, loud, and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the refined Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot's world. He fir... |
Hercule Poirot | Major novels | Major novels
The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book (Curtain), where he visits Styles before his death. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, inc... |
Hercule Poirot | Portrayals | Portrayals |
Hercule Poirot | Stage | Stage
The first actor to portray Poirot was Charles Laughton. He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. In 1932, the play was performed as The Fatal Alibi on Broadway. Another Poirot play, Black Coffee, opened in London ... |
Hercule Poirot | Film | Film |
Hercule Poirot | Austin Trevor | Austin Trevor
Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi. The film was based on the stage play. Trevor reprised the role of Poirot twice, in Black Coffee and Lord Edgware Dies. Trevor said once that he was probably cast as Poirot simply because he could do a French accent.At th... |
Hercule Poirot | Tony Randall | Tony Randall
Tony Randall portrayed Poirot in The Alphabet Murders, a 1965 film also known as The ABC Murders. This was more a satire of Poirot than a straightforward adaptation and was greatly changed from the original. Much of the story, set in modern times, was played for comedy, with Poirot investigating the mur... |
Hercule Poirot | Albert Finney | Albert Finney
thumb|Albert Finney as Poirot in the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express
Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express. Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win. |
Hercule Poirot | Peter Ustinov | Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov as Poirot in a 1982 adaptation of the novel Evil Under the Sun|frame
Peter Ustinov played Poirot six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978). He reprised the role in Evil Under the Sun (1982) and Appointment with Death (1988).
Christie's daughter Rosalind Hicks observed Ustinov dur... |
Hercule Poirot | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh played Poirot in film adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, Death on the Nile in 2022, and A Haunting in Venice, based on the novel Hallowe'en Party, in 2023. Branagh directed all three and co-produced them alongside Ridley Scott. They were all written by Michael Green. |
Hercule Poirot | Other | Other
Anatoly Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza (End House Mystery) (1989; based on "Peril at End House")
Pál Mácsai, A titokzatos stylesi eset (The Mysterious Affair at Styles) (2023)
Television
David Suchet
David Suchet starred as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 1989 until June 2013, wh... |
Hercule Poirot | External links | External links
Official Agatha Christie website
Hercule Poirot on IMDb
Listen to Orson Welles in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
Listen to the 1945 Hercule Poirot radio program
Wiktionary definition of Edgar Allan Poe's "ratiocination"
Category:Characters in British novels of the 20th century
Category:Char... |
Hercule Poirot | Table of Content | short description, Overview, Influences, Popularity, Appearance and proclivities, Methods, Life, Origins, Policeman, Private detective, Retirement, Post–World War II, Death, Recurring characters, Captain Arthur Hastings, Mrs Ariadne Oliver, Miss Felicity Lemon, Chief Inspector James Harold Japp, Major novels, Portrayal... |
Miss Marple | Short description | Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterised as an elderly spinster,agathachristie.com: Facts about Miss Marple she is one of Christie's best-known characte... |
Miss Marple | Origins | Origins
The character of Miss Marple is based on friends of Christie's step grandmother, Margaret Miller, née West.Margaret West was the sister of Mary Ann Boehmer, Agatha Christie's maternal grandmother. Margaret married Christie's paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Frary Miller, in 1863 in Westbourne, West Sussex. He di... |
Miss Marple | Character | Character
The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is quite different from how she appears in later books. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman. The residents of St. Mary Mead like her but are often tired of her nosy nature... |
Miss Marple | Bibliography | Bibliography
Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels and 20 short stories featuring Miss Marple. |
Miss Marple | Miss Marple series | Miss Marple series
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930, Novel)
The Body in the Library (1942, Novel)
The Moving Finger (1943, Novel)
A Murder Is Announced (1950, Novel)
They Do It with Mirrors (1952, Novel) – also published in the United States as Murder With Mirrors
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953, Novel)
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Miss Marple | Miss Marple short story collections | Miss Marple short story collections
The Thirteen Problems (1932, short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders)
The Regatta Mystery (1939, Collection)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950, Collection)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960, Collection)
Double Sin... |
Miss Marple | Continuations not by Christie | Continuations not by Christie
Marple: Twelve New Stories, collection with stories written by Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, and Ruth Ware (published 2022) |
Miss Marple | Books about Miss Marple | Books about Miss Marple
The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple – a biography by Anne Hart
Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness – by Mark Aldridge |
Miss Marple | Stage | Stage
A stage adaptation of Murder at the Vicarage, by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy, was first seen at Northampton on 17 October 1949;'Chit Chat', The Stage, 29 September 1949 it was directed by Reginald Tate, starred the 35-year-old Barbara Mullen as Miss Marple, and after touring, reached the Playhouse Theatre in Lon... |
Miss Marple | Films | Films |
Miss Marple | Margaret Rutherford | Margaret Rutherford
Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple in four films directed by George Pollock between 1961 and 1964. These were successful light comedies, but Christie herself was disappointed with them.Matthew Bunson, The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 386-87.
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Miss Marple | Angela Lansbury | Angela Lansbury
In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd (EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton), based on Christie's 1962 novel. The film featured an all-star cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, and Kim Novak. Edward Fox appeared as Inspector Craddock, who... |
Miss Marple | Ita Ever | Ita Ever
In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress, Ita Ever, starred in the Russian language Mosfilm adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, A Pocket Full of Rye (using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds), as the character of Miss Marple. Ever has also portrayed the character of Miss Ma... |
Miss Marple | Future works | Future works
In October 2024, it was revealed that 20th Century Studios, which has produced the Hercule Poirot films with Kenneth Branagh, plans to adapt more of Christie's work, including unspecified Miss Marple titles. |
Miss Marple | Television | Television
The first on-screen portrayal of Miss Marple was by British actress and singer Gracie Fields, playing her in a 1956 episode of the American series Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by in a West German televisio... |
Miss Marple | Helen Hayes | Helen Hayes
American stage and screen actress, Helen Hayes, portrayed Miss Marple in two American television films near the end of her decades-long acting career, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery (1983) and Murder with Mirrors (1985). Sue Grafton contributed to the screenplay of the former. Hayes's Marple was benign a... |
Miss Marple | Joan Hickson | Joan Hickson
From 1984 to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a series titled Miss Marple. Joan Hickson played the lead role. In the 1940s, she had appeared on stage in an Agatha Christie play Appointment with Death, seen by Christie, who wrote in a note to her, "I hope one day you will pla... |
Miss Marple | Geraldine McEwan (2004–2008)/Julia McKenzie (2009–2013) | Geraldine McEwan (2004–2008)/Julia McKenzie (2009–2013)
Beginning in 2004, ITV broadcast a series of adaptations of Agatha Christie's books under the title Agatha Christie's Marple, usually referred to as Marple. Geraldine McEwan starred in the first three series. Julia McKenzie took over the role in the fourth season... |
Miss Marple | Anime | Anime
From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Miss Marple's voice is provided by Kaoru Yachigusa. Episodes adapted both short stories and novels.
The anime series dram... |
Miss Marple | Radio | Radio
June Whitfield starred as Miss Marple in Michael Bakewell's adaptations of all twelve novels, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1993 and 2001.
Three short stories with Whitfield ("Tape-Measure Murder", "The Case of the Perfect Maid" and "Sanctuary") were later broadcast under the collective title Miss Marple's F... |
Miss Marple | Other appearances | Other appearances
thumb|Marple, as she appeared in volume 20 of Case Closed
Marple was highlighted in volume 20 of the Case Closed manga's edition of "Gosho Aoyama's Mystery Library", a section of the graphic novels (usually the last page) where the author introduces a different detective (or occasionally, a villain) ... |
Miss Marple | See also | See also
List of female detective characters |
Miss Marple | References | References |
Miss Marple | External links | External links
Miss Marple at the official Agatha Christie website
Miss Marple on IMDb
Category:Miss Marple characters
Category:Book series introduced in 1930
Category:British novels adapted into films
Category:British novels adapted into plays
Category:Characters in British novels of the 20th century
Category... |
Miss Marple | Table of Content | Short description, Origins, Character, Bibliography, Miss Marple series, Miss Marple short story collections, Continuations not by Christie, Books about Miss Marple, Stage, Films, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury, Ita Ever, Future works, Television, Helen Hayes, Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan (2004–2008)/Julia McKe... |
April | short description | April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Its length is 30 days.
April is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa. |
April | History | History
thumb|April, Brevarium Grimani, fol. 5v (Flemish)
The Romans gave this month the Latin name Aprilis"April" in Chambers's Encyclopædia. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 497. but the derivation of this name is uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the verb aperire, "to open", in allusion to its b... |
April | Symbols | Symbols
alt=Faceted diamond|thumb|Faceted diamondApril's birthstone is the diamond. The birth flower is the common daisy (Bellis perennis) or the sweet pea.Kipfer, Barbara Ann (1997) The Order of Things. New York: Random House The zodiac signs are Aries (until April 19) and Taurus (April 20 onward).The Earth passed t... |
April | Observances | Observances
This list does not necessarily imply official status or general observance. |
April | Month-long | Month-long
thumb|A fresco in a Catholic church in Switzerland representing the Resurrection of the Lord
In Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox tradition, April is the Month of the Resurrection of the Lord. April and March are the months in which the moveable Feast of Easter Sunday is celebrated.
National Pet Month (U... |
April | United States | United States
Arab American Heritage Month
Autism Awareness Month
Cancer Control Month
Community College Awareness Month
Confederate History Month (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
Financial Literacy Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
M... |
April | United States food months | United States food months
Fresh Florida Tomato Month
National Food Month
National Grilled Cheese Month
National Pecan Month
National Soft Pretzel Month
National Soyfoods Month |
April | Non-Gregorian | Non-Gregorian
(All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at the sundown prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question unless otherwise noted.)
List of observances set by the Bahá'í calendar
List of observances set by the Chinese calendar
List of observances set by the Hebrew calendar... |
April | Movable | Movable |
April | Variable; 2021 dates shown | Variable; 2021 dates shown
Youth Homelessness Matters Day
National Health Day (Kiribati): April 6
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (United States): April 13–19
National Park Week (United States): April 18–26
Crime Victims' Rights Week (United States): April 19–25
National Volunteer Week: April 19–25
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April | First Wednesday | First Wednesday
National Day of Hope (United States) |
April | First Saturday | First Saturday
Ulcinj Municipality Day (Ulcinj, Montenegro) |
April | First Sunday | First Sunday
Daylight saving time ends (Australia and New Zealand)
Geologists Day (former Soviet Union countries)
Kanamara Matsuri (Kawasaki, Japan)
Opening Day (United States) |
April | First full week | First full week
National Library Week (United States)
National Library Workers Day (United States) (Tuesday of National Library week, April 9 in 2024)
National Bookmobile Day (Wednesday of National Library week, April 10 in 2024)
National Public Health Week (United States)
National Public Safety Telecommunicator... |
April | Second Wednesday | Second Wednesday
International Day of Pink |
April | Second Thursday | Second Thursday
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day (United States) |
April | Second Friday | Second Friday
Fast and Prayer Day (Liberia)
Air Force Day (Russia)
Kamakura Matsuri at Tsurugaoka Hachiman (Kamakura, Japan), lasts until third Sunday. |
April | Second Sunday | Second Sunday
Children's Day (Peru) |
April | Week of April 14 | Week of April 14
Pan American Week (United States) |
April | Third Wednesday | Third Wednesday
Administrative Professionals Day (New Zealand) |
April | Third Thursday | Third Thursday
National High Five Day (United States) |
April | Third Saturday | Third Saturday
Record Store Day (International observance) |
April | Last full week of April | Last full week of April
Administrative Professionals Week (Malaysia, North America)
World Immunization Week |
April | Week of April 23 | Week of April 23
Canada Book Week (Canada) |
April | Week of the [[new moon]] | Week of the new moon
International Dark Sky Week (United States) |
April | Third Monday | Third Monday
Patriots' Day (Massachusetts, Maine, United States)
Queen's Official Birthday (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
Sechseläuten (Zurich, Switzerland) |
April | Wednesday of last full week of April | Wednesday of last full week of April
Administrative Professionals Day (Hong Kong, North America) |
April | First Thursday after April 18 | First Thursday after April 18
First Day of Summer (Iceland) |
April | Fourth Thursday | Fourth Thursday
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (United States) |
April | Last Friday | Last Friday
Arbor Day (United States)
Día de la Chupina (Rosario, Argentina) |
April | Last Friday in April to first Sunday in May | Last Friday in April to first Sunday in May
Arbour Week in Ontario |
April | Last Saturday | Last Saturday
Children's Day (Colombia)
National Rebuilding Day (United States)
National Sense of Smell Day (United States)
World Tai Chi and Qigong Day |
April | Last Sunday | Last Sunday
Flag Day (Åland, Finland)
Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) |
April | April 27 (April 26 if April 27 is a Sunday) | April 27 (April 26 if April 27 is a Sunday)
Koningsdag (Netherlands) |
April | Last Monday | Last Monday
Confederate Memorial Day (Alabama, Georgia (U.S. state), and Mississippi, United States) |
April | Last Wednesday | Last Wednesday
International Noise Awareness Day |
April | Fixed | Fixed
thumb|Celebration of the 2777th Natale di Roma at the Circus Maximus
April 1
April Fools' Day
Arbor Day (Tanzania)
Civil Service Day (Thailand)
Cyprus National Day (Cyprus)
Edible Book Day
Fossil Fools Day
Kha b-Nisan (Assyrian people)
National Civil Service Day (Thailand)
Odisha Day (Odisha, India)
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April | See also | See also
Germanic calendar
List of historical anniversaries
Sinking of the RMS Titanic |
April | References | References
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April | External links | External links
National Arbor Day Foundation
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April | Table of Content | short description, History, Symbols, Observances, Month-long, United States, United States food months, Non-Gregorian, Movable, Variable; 2021 dates shown, First Wednesday, First Saturday, First Sunday, First full week, Second Wednesday, Second Thursday, Second Friday, Second Sunday, Week of April 14, Third Wednesday, ... |
August | short description | thumb|Depiction of harvesting in the August calendar page of the Queen Mary Psalter (fol. 78v), ca. 1310
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days.
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Nor... |
August | Symbols | Symbols
thumb|Gladiolus
alt=Peridot gemstones|thumb|Peridot gemstones alt=Sardonyx stone|thumb|Sardonyx stone alt=Red spinel on calcite|thumb|Red spinel on calciteAugust's birthstones are the peridot, sardonyx, and spinel. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marria... |
August | Observances | Observances
This list does not necessarily imply official status or general observance. |
August | Non-Gregorian: {{CURRENTYEAR}} dates | Non-Gregorian: dates
(All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at sundown before the listed date and end at sundown on the date in question unless otherwise noted.)
List of observances set by the Bahá'í calendar
List of observances set by the Chinese calendar
List of observances set by the Hebrew calenda... |
August | Month-long | Month-long
Women's Month (South Africa)
American Adventures Month (celebrates vacationing in the Americas)
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
Digestive Tract Paralysis (DTP) Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Happiness Happens Month
Month of Philippine Languages or Buwan ng Wika (Philippines)
Neurosur... |
August | United States month-long | United States month-long
National Black Business Month
National Children's Vision and Learning Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Princess Peach Month
National Water Quality Month
National Win with Civility Month |
August | Food months in the United States | Food months in the United States
National Catfish Month
National Dippin' Dots Month
Family Meals Month
National Goat Cheese Month.Bober, Mike. Celebrate National Goat Cheese Month with Local Favorites, dcfoodies.com
National Panini Month
Peach Month
Sandwich Month |
August | Moveable Gregorian | Moveable Gregorian
National Science Week (Australia)
See also Movable Western Christian observances
See also Movable Eastern Christian observances |
August | Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks | Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks
Construction Holiday (Quebec) |
August | 1st Saturday | 1st Saturday
Food Day (Canada)
Mead Day (United States)
National Mustard Day (United States) |
August | 1st Sunday | 1st Sunday
Air Force Day (Ukraine)
American Family Day (Arizona, United States)
Children's Day (Uruguay)
Friendship Day (United States)
International Forgiveness Day
Railway Workers' Day (Russia) |
August | First full week of August | First full week of August
National Farmer's Market Week (United States) |
August | 1st Monday | 1st Monday
August Public Holiday (Ireland)
Children's Day (Tuvalu)
Civic Holiday (Canada)
British Columbia Day (British Columbia, Canada)
Natal Day (Nova Scotia, Canada)
New Brunswick Day (New Brunswick, Canada)
Saskatchewan Day (Saskatchewan, Canada
Terry Fox Day (Manitoba, Canada)
Commerce Day (Iceland)
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August | 1st Tuesday | 1st Tuesday
National Night Out (United States) |