![]() The Mysterious Affair at Styles, as a Christie murder mystery, is of course complicated although her plotting here seems a bit clunkier than it would be later as she got into the flow of her novel-writing. ![]() He was residing in that dreamworld of long-running fictional characters. Was Poirot 105 when he was solving his last case? He was the center of 32 later books (out of Christie’s 66), and, by the final one, Curtain, he is definitely old - suffering from heart attacks and in a wheelchair because of his arthritis.Ĭurtain, although written in the early 1940s, was published in 1975, or 55 years after The Mysterious Affair at Styles. ![]() This book, written in 1916 and published in 1920, was Poirot’s first appearance. ![]() ![]() What “old” means isn’t specified, but it would seem not a stretch to say he’s at least 50. When characters become the central figures in a long-running series of novels, they enter into some other dimension where they may age but essentially remain the same - where they don’t experience the passing of years in the way the reader does.įor instance, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s first published mystery, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is already old. ![]()
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