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Hercule Poirot & Felicity Lemon
Miss Marple
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Long story
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Hercule Poirot & Felicity Lemon
Miss Marple
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| "I really wonder is there really a person who is so well arranged as
him..." (Anonymous) "He is unique." (Peter K.) "The genius that is methodical." (Bernardo Frederes K. Akcades) "I like the fact that he analyzes the psychology of the crime and uses his head, instead of figuring out the modus operandi of the crime like Sherlock Holmes" (Rachana Shah) "He is just fantastic: he just thinks... he's surprising!!!" (FLiCa) "Poirot is simply the best." (Alvaro Tamer Vasques) |
Hercule Poirot - a retired Belgian police officer with a high opinion of
himself. He appeared in more than 30 novels and short story collections accompanied by
Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Felicity Lemon and Ariadne Oliver. Agatha Christie
wanted to have someone new and exotic in her first detective novel - The Mysterious
Affair at Styles and she obviously succeeded. He is clever (gray cells!), equipped with a pompous character, ridiculous affectations, a luxuriant moustache and a curious egg-shaped head. Hercule Poirot does not have to spy with a magnifying glass, he prefers to study 'the psychology of a criminal'. It is not reasonable to mention all novels and collections he appeared in, if you are interested in such a list, please have a look into the Books section. |
Felicity Lemon
| Miss Lemon works as Parker Pyne's private secretary before
settling into a long career in the employ of Hercule Poirot. Felicity Lemon appears in 6
Christie short stories, and four novels, the first being Hickory Hickory Dock. Her
appearance is usually brief and have no significance to the story, except the mentioned Hickory
Hickory Dock - Poirot is startled when Miss Lemon, his "perfect machine" of
a secretary makes 3 mistakes in typing a simple letter. "I agree with Hercule Poirot : she is like a machine. Efficient and very worried in a new system for the archives." (Bernardo Frederes K. Alcades) |
Book that she appears | Year |
| Parker Pyne Investigates |
1934 | |
| Hickory Hickory Dock |
1955 | |
| Dead Man's Folly |
1956 | |
| Third Girl |
1966 | |
| Elephants Can Remember |
1972 |
| Miss Jane Marple is a shrewd and observant maiden lady living
in St. Mary Mead. She matches new problems with remembered experience and though a
cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything and was, with
almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right. The first novel with Miss Marple was 'Murder at the Vicarage' (1930) and she gave us a farewell in 'Sleeping Murder' - a novel published after Agatha Christie's death. "Compares the people with a very singular and similar to the reality: always by comparison. I sometimes surprise me thinking exactly so." (Eduardo G. Altmann) "She is on of my favorites because there is no mystery to big for her." (Peter K.) "There's a lot to be said for Miss Marple's way of figuring out whodunit. Long experience in knowing people is also a probable advantage for a long-time police officer--Miss Marple is simply a Avery fine amateur. I give her 10 out of 10! (Anne Beddingfeld) |
Books that she appears | Year |
| Murder at The Vicarage |
1930 | |
| The Thirteen Problems |
1932 | |
| The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories |
1939 | |
| The Body in the Library |
1942 | |
| The Moving Finger |
1942 | |
| Three Blind Mices and Other Stories |
1950 | |
| A Murder is Announced |
1950 | |
| They do it With Mirrors |
1952 | |
| A Pocket Full of Rye |
1953 | |
| 4:50 From Paddington |
1957 | |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding |
1960 | |
| Double Sin and Other Stories |
1961 | |
| The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side |
1962 | |
| A Caribbean Mystery |
1964 | |
| At Bertram's Hotel |
1965 | |
| Nemesis |
1971 | |
| Sleeping Murder |
1976 |
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