Hercule Poirot

Celebrating Miss Marple, expert on the wickedness of village life

14 December 2024 9:00 am

The elderly spinster with a fine sense of evil was a creation Agatha Christie never tired of – unlike the ‘tiresome, egocentric’ Hercule Poirot

Why David Suchet makes the perfect Poirot

21 December 2019 9:00 am

I can imagine a quiz question along the lines of ‘What do Shylock, Lady Bracknell, Sigmund Freud and Hercule Poirot…

If the world economy crashes again, blame the central bankers

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Like the Christmas pudding sampled by Hercule Poirot at Kings Lacey — but six weeks early — our Spectator Money…

The 'detestable, bombastic, egocentric' detective — Hercule Poirot lives on

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Robert Gore-Langton on our love for fictional detectives — and especially Poirot