Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories is called "Johnny". The 2002 ITV adaptation of "Sparkling Cyanide" featured Oliver Ford Davies as "Colonel Geoffrey Reece". Countess Vera Rossakoff is the only woman with whom Hercule Poirot has ever admitted to being in love. The countess' true name is a mystery. She appears in only one novel, "The Big Four", and two short stories, "The Double Clue" and "The Capture of Cerberus" ("The Labours of Hercules" series). Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories This page details the other fictional characters created by Agatha Christie in her stories about the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Hastings first meets Poirot
Dead Boy Detectives spirit to return to death against its will. In the 2001 limited series "Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives" the two ghosts investigate the mystery of why and how numerous corpses of homeless children had begun washing up on the shores of the Thames. Dead Boy Detectives The Dead Boy Detectives are fictional characters that have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. They were created by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III in "The Sandman" #25 (April, 1991). The characters are the ghosts of two dead children, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine,