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Celebrating the Queen of Crime | Famous Quotes by Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie is a household name that needs no introduction, so much so that today, crime fiction and Christie are almost synonymous. With the Queen of Crime’s 130th birthday right around the corner, we had to make it special!

We bring to you these 8 quotes from one of her most famous characters, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

 

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130 years of agatha christie

 

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

This edition includes a previously deleted chapter and a newly discovered essay, ‘Drugs and Detective Stories’, in which Agatha Christie reminisces about the inspiration for Poirot’s first case.

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130 years of agatha christie

The Big Four

Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’.

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130 years of agatha christie

Five Little Pigs

The beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake who went to market; Meredith Blake who stayed at home; Elsa Greer who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams who had none; and Angela Warren  who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home.

It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind…

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130 years of agatha christie

Dumb Witness

Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.

On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead…

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130 years of agatha christie

Death on the Nile

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems…

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130 years of agatha christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie’s most daring crime mystery – an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever.

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130 years of agatha christie

After the Funeral

There are certain things that are best left unsaid. Though tragedy had touched the life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his sudden death seemed pretty unremarkable for a man of his age. So why would his sister wait until his funeral to say he had been murdered?

When she is savagely killed with a hatchet the next day, her extraordinary remark suddenly takes on a chilling significance. In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery…

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130 years of agatha christieThe Mystery of Three Quarters

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London.

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