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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 / [1]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
The first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet came out in 1887, and Doyle continued to write Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories until around 1927. 1920 to 1939 came to be known as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. And the queen of his age was Agatha Christie. During her lifetime, Agatha Christie wrote sixty-six detective novels ...
An inverted detective story, also known as a " howcatchem ", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described at the beginning, [ 60 ] usually including the identity of the perpetrator. [ 61 ] The story then describes the detective's attempt to solve the mystery.
Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret.
Feb 13, 2013 · The first modern detective story is often said to be Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841) but in fact E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Das Fräulein von Scuderi’ predates it by over twenty years. There is also a story titled ‘The Secret Cell’ from 1837, and written by Poe’s own publisher, William Evans Burton, which ...
Jan 7, 2011 · Here’s a real mystery for you: Who wrote the first detective novel? For years, the usual suspect was Wilkie Collins, who made the great leap from Poe’s short stories to the Victorian triple ...
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It was similarly fascinating to discover that Marie Belloc Lowndes, who wrote the 1913 novel The Lodger (which provided Alfred Hitchcock with the basis for one of his first feature films in 1927), also created a series detective named Hercule Popeau, whose name probably helped to inspire Agatha Christie when she was casting around for a name for her famous Belgian sleuth a few years later.
