Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired Belgian police officer living in London. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, and John Malkovich. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays ( Black Coffee and Alibi), and more than 50 short stories published between 19. Her home at Greenway was gifted to the National Trust following the deaths of her daughter Rosalind and son-in-law Anthony Hicks.Hercule Poirot ( UK: / ˈ ɛər k juː l ˈ p w ɑːr oʊ/, US: / h ɜːr ˈ k juː l p w ɑː ˈ r oʊ/ ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. In the interview, Mr Prichard says that after several generations, the Christie writing gene might, finally have been passed down: "My eldest grandduaghter reads voraciously and I think she has inherited the writing gene - unlike the rest of us."ĭame Agatha was born Agatha Miller in Torquay in 1890 and died in 1976. The result, says Mr Prichard, was that Dame Agatha continued to "churn out" Poirot whodunnits.
"But her agents and publishers, who were in charge of the pounds and pence, were very keen on Poirot.
"But some of these ideas were inappropriate for Poirot, so she was very keen to exorcise herself of him by writing different stories with new characters. "She was never short of ideas for books," Mr Pritchard says of his grandmother, who was born in Torquay and had a home overlooking the River Dart at Greenway, near Galmpton in south Devon. The author with actor Anthony Holles, recording Poirot for BBC radio in 1937
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