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Hercule Poirot

Poirot is an English (from England) crime-drama series featuring a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play (Black Coffee), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.

Christie has been purposefully vague about Poirot's origins, as he is thought to be an elderly man even in the early novels. In An Autobiography, she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920. At the time, however, she had no idea she would write works featuring him for decades to come.

Timeline

• 1904 - Poirot retires from Belgian police force as detective
  • Has own practice in Europe, meets Inspector James Japp & later Captain Arthur Hastings
• 1916 - Arrives to England as a Belgian refugee from WWI Aided by Mrs. Inglethorpe of Styles Court, meets Hastings again
  • Solves murder at Styles Court with Hastings & Japp Sets up practice in England, moves to 14 Farraway Street, London, with Hastings
• 1923 - Poirot & Hastings solve murder in France, Hastings marries Dulcie and moves to Argentina
• 1925? - Poirot solves jewel theft, meets the Russian Countess Vera Rossakoff for first time
• 1926 - Poirot unmasks member of the "Big Four" with Hastings, meets with Countess Rossakoff again
  • Retires and goes to King's Abbot to grow vegetable marrows for a year, solves the murder of Mr. Ackroyd
• 1928 - While in France, Poirot solves a jewel theft & murder of American heiress, hires Georges as valet
• 1932 - Poirot & Hastings (back from Argentina) are vacationing in St. Loo and uncover murder attempts
• 1934? - Poirot moves to 28 Whitehaven Mansions
• 1935 - Poirot travels in airplane to England where a French moneylender is murdered, Japp helps Poirot solves ABC Murders with Hastings, who visits from Argentina, & Japp
• 1936 - Poirot and fellow sleuths Colonel Race, Battle, and Ariadne Oliver solve murder of dinner host
• 1937 - Poirot meets Colonel Race again and solves murder on the Nile River
  • Hastings helps Poirot solve case about "accident" of old lady Poirot & Inspector Japp investigate a girl's suicide/murder
• 1939? - Felicity Lemon is hired by Poirot to be his secretary
• 1941 - Poirot goes to the Jolly Roger Hotel and solves crime there
• 1946 - Poirot unexpectedly sees Countess Rossakoff years later, now as a proprietor of a nightclub
• 1948 - Poirot travels to Warmsley Vale to solve murder of young wife
• 1952 - Poirot, Mrs. Oliver, Spence join to solve old lady's murder and clear an innocent man
• 1955 - Miss Lemon's sister comes to Poirot asking for help at youth hostel
• 1956 - Mrs. Oliver asks Poirot to help in a real murder hunt of a young girl
• 1963 - Colin Lamb asks Poirot for help in murder of an unknown man
• 1969 - Poirot joins forces with Spence (and Mrs. Oliver) in a Halloween Party murder
• 1972 - Poirot helps Mrs. Oliver & Spence solve a decades-old murder/suicide
• 1975 - Georges leaves employ of Poirot, Poirot goes to Styles Court
  • Poirot & Hastings track down murderer in Poirot's last case at Styles

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