![]() ![]() Solving The Mysterious Affair at Styles revitalized him, however, and he embarked on a career as a private detective.īeing fastidiously neat, he is often wrongly "diagnosed" as OCD or OCPD. It was, Poirot later admitted, quite a common occurrence around him. Naturally, while he was there, someone was murdered. Originally a Belgian police detective, he became a refugee when World War I broke out and ended up in the tiny English village of Styles St. note A character in Curtain mentions that the events of the first story happened "a mere twenty years ago", but the book had been written during the War and not updated accordingly to give a more realistic date. ![]() This would make him at least 110 when it ended. His curiously elongated career lasted from 1916 to 1975, although he was at retirement age when it began. Rightly so, he would say, being also one of the most conceited. The star of thirty-three books and fifty-six short stories by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot is one of the most famous fictional detectives in the world. ![]()
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