The Poirot books are still under copyright in the United Kingdom. Only works written by Christie (including short stories, the novels and her play Black Coffee) are to be considered canon by most fans and biographers. 5 Other stories set in Poirot's universe.3.2.1 Shortly after Poirot flees to England (1916–1918).3.2 Career as a private detective and retirement.3 Books and short stories in chronological order.2 Hercule Poirot Series in publication order.Yet Poirot the consummate professional doesn’t rest until he has hunted down the culprit, whose blasé defense (“there are other dentists”) he angrily rejects: “We are all human beings.” This is Hercule Poirot in a nutshell: at once arrogant and sympathetic, vain and vulnerable, a dandified snob deeply attuned to the problems of other people. One suspects a man like Poirot, who does not take affronts lightly, might feel a twinge of satisfaction upon learning, later that day, that Mr. The scene, recounted in Mark Aldridge’s “Agatha Christie’s Poirot,” takes place at the beginning of Agatha Christie’s 1940 novel, “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” (published as “The Patriotic Murders” in the United States). Poirot’s words come out sounding more like: “I ah nah a Frahah-I ah-hah a Benyon.” As Christie’s narrator acidly observes, “Few men are heroes to themselves at the moment of visiting their dentist.” The response is as indignant as it is immediate, although, muffled by wads of cotton, M. Morley has made things worse by getting Poirot’s nationality wrong. And now, after poking around in his helpless patient’s mouth (“just a couple of fillings”), the meddling Mr. Morley’s office at 58, Queen Charlotte Street in London. The greatest detective in the world is where he most assuredly doesn’t want to be-supine in the dentist’s chair in Mr. ‘I’m not a Frenchman-I am a Belgian,” protests Hercule Poirot.
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