Hercule Poirot and the Stolen AIBU

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Would Poirot survive in an internet age?

What would Agatha Christie have made of it?

And can anyone explain the plot of Sparkling Cyanide to me? I have all AC's books and love to read them as I fall asleep. But I have never understood the ending of Sparkling Cyanide.

The Big Four may be convoluted as a book but that’s far better than the utter dross they concocted by cherry picking tiny elements from it and spinning them into absolute shit in the final series of the TV show.

I have the entire collection, my dad bought them for me when I was a teen. I have always preferred Hercule to Miss Marple!

The books written after 1970 show an obvious decline in Agatha Christie's cognitive powers.

Many people have suggested that she may have had dementia.
I am currently reading Nemesis and I really don't think it would have been published if AC hadn't been a household name by then.

As for Elephants Can Remember - Molly Ravenscroft is supposed to be 30 - and she has a grey curly wig (amongst others). Nothing about that particular book makes any sense. The writing is all over the place.

Postern of Fate (the last book written) ought never to have been published. Rosalind Hicks (AC's daughter) was very upset that it was, as it didn't show her mother in a good light, as far as literary output was concerned.

The publishers only went ahead with it because it was an AC and they were so popular.

But it is a truly appalling book.

I love Parker Pyne. I’m surprised he’s never had an adaptation for TV. Alfred Molina would be quite good in an avuncular, fatherly way.

The less said about David Walliams in the Tommy and Tuppence adaptation the better.

I would love to see some Parker Pyne TV adaptations too plunkplunkfizz

He is a wonderful character - as is Mr. Satterthwaite.

Who would be a good Mr Satterthwaite? Someone with a slightly camp air just bubbling under the surface but I can’t put my finger on it.

In my head he looks like an Anglicised John Hamm.

And I have always had trouble liking the Dermot Craddock of the TV adaptations.

AC had him as a very likeable person but this doesn't come across in any of the films.

Mr. Satterthwaite - how about Alex Jennings?

He can do slightly camp brilliantly.

I love Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, she’s perfect! As is David Suchet as Poirot! And ‘I say!’ Captain Hastings!! Love AC!

If you prefer Miss Marple over Poirot, May I recommend the Miss Silver books by Patricia Wentworth? They're in very similar vein and written in the same eras.

Oh, the David Walliams Tommy and Tuppence was a total travesty

Alex Jennings would be good. He was excellent as “ladies’ man” Dr Roberts.

Lord Edgware dies is the perfect book in this genre I think

I've recently started easing AC and very excited to be visiting her house in a couple of weeks

Does anyone remember the old Tommy and Tuppence series in which Francesca Annis played Tuppence?

They were always jumping into bed. Most disconcerting as AC didn't do bedroom scenes.

Is it a guided tour for AC fans TakeMeToYourLiar with Mathew Prichard (AC's grandson) presiding?

My sister went to one of those and met Rosalind, AC's daughter.

Rosalind never thought much of her mother's books, apparently.

I hope they don't ruin Death Comes at the End. It's one of my favourites.
I like the ones with interesting psychology - Towards Zero, Ordeal by Innocence Murder is Easy Crooked House etc.
I think Suchet played Inspector Japp in one of the Ustinov films.

Actually I retract, the murder of roger ackroyd is better.

Don't google you need it spoiler free

Miss Marple is better than Poirot.

Joan Hickson is the best, although I do quite like Margaret Rutherfords portrayal and Helen Hayes.

Peter Ustinov is by far the best Poirot, it still disappoints me that he didn't do Murder on the Orient Express.

I just wasn't keen on Albert Finneys version.

I really should read all the books again, but I'm lazy and get my AC fix watching Dvd's.

The reason you probably though Hastings was in more books is because of the David suchet TV show, it added Japp, Miss Lemon and Hastings to most of the stories.

I wasn't keen on the Suchet version of Murder on the Orient Express.

I thought the ending was unlikely.

I always knew that there weren't many Hastings books and that ITV added him in to many of the stories.

I added them up last night and was surprised by how few there actually were.

As for Miss Lemon appearing so often - I suppose ITV thought it would be useful to have a recurring female character.

Joan Hickson was amaaaaazing - sadly the other actors in the series did not always match up. I was rewatching something not long ago and had forgotten how much over-acting there was.

David Suchet is also amaaaazing - no other Poirot ever will match up. Fact. He put in so much research and managed to make a human out of what sometimes was just a charicature.

I have no input on the OP though.

My horse is called Hercule Poirot and he denies stealing anything. Well, maybe the odd mouthful of some other horse food.

I read Crooked House, but the illustration on the cover of the copy l read allowed me to guess the murderer. So annoying! Miss Marple is my fave, I like the 13 Problems. And The Labours of Hercules for Poirot.

countrygirl99 ah but does your horse solve problems wheb the police call him in for a consultation?