Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories 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 during his years as a private detective in Europe. Almost immediately after they both arrive in England, he becomes Poirot's partner, and appears in many of the novels and stories. Poirot's view of Hastings was of a man with plenty of imagination but not a great deal of brains. Hastings was capable of great bravery when the going got tough, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by the "Big Four"
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,