Marie Belloc Lowndes
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Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes was an English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a reputation for combining exciting incidents with psych
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Cover of The Chink in the Armour
Hercule Poirot
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Hercule Poirot is a recurring fictional Belgian detective created by the English writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is Christie's most famous and longest-running character, appearing in 33 novels, two pla
Marie Belloc Lowndes
…resented being classed as a crime writer. She created the French detective Hercules Popeau, maybe before Agatha Christie's creation of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Popeau appeared in two novels and a series of short stories, creating some confusion when both had works called "The Labours of Hercules". In the…
Albert Finney as Poirot in the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express
The original 1924 edition of Poirot Investigates, reusing W. Smithson Broadhead's illustration of the character from 1923.
A statuette of Poirot in Ellezelles, Belgium
Florin Court