The clues this time include a linen handkerchief, a pipe cleaner and a button from a train guard's uniform - meat and drink to the little grey cells. He soon uncovers dastardly deeds in the dead man's past and a lot of suspects - or were 13 of them acting in concert? Another exotic setting for Poirot to strut his stuff, the fabled train from Istanbul to London - and of course there's a murder for Hercule to get his teeth into. Perhaps the most famous title of all time in detective fiction. One of Agatha Christie's best loved books, in a setting that's tailor-made for the dapper Belgian detective. How does Hercule Poirot solve the mystery, with reference to wine and nail polish? Was it the husband, a slimy character who seemed very interested in Linnet's fortune? Whodunit? Was it Jacqueline de Bellefort, the friend whose boyfriend she stole? Jackie is hitting the bottle and waving a gun around, after all. Linnet Ridgeway is murdered while honeymooning on a cruise ship on the Nile.

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, set in 1916, he solved his first case as a private detective. Why did Poirot come to England? He was forced out of Belgium by the First World War and travelled to England in 1916, There he renewed acquaintance with Arthur Hastings. She was to go on publishing tales of the dapper Belgian's exploits for another thirty years and more. The author said she envisaged him as old in 1920, when she published the first Poirot tale. He does refer to various aspects of his life in various stories but these references are often deliberate lies, told in order to gain information from a suspect. Belgian, a Catholic, from a poor family, he was a policeman but had left the force by 1916. Surprisingly little is known of Monsieur Poirot's life, even though Agatha Christie wrote so many stories involving him. One must seek the truth within - not without.' If you're in the UK, buy Hercule Poirot books from Amazon UK 'It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely.

If you want to buy the book from Amazon US, click on the pic of the cover by the description. Most of them have been a success because they have behind them the writing of Agatha Christie, an amazing author of crime fiction.

Poirot has appeared in plays, TV shows, movies, played by a wide range of actors. Despite that, he's been catching criminals for many years and doesn't seem to get any older or less popular. He's an unlikely hero, being small and gentlemanly and not the sort to get his hands dirty. Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, is one of Agatha Christie's most memorable creations.

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