Hercule Poirot "Agatha Christie's Poirot", Japp was portrayed by Philip Jackson. In the film, "Thirteen at Dinner" (1985), adapted from "Lord Edgware Dies", the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations. The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ("The Mysterious Affair at Styles"), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ("Curtain"), where he visits Styles before his death. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, "Murder
Agatha Christie's Poirot that the story was first published in book format in "The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories" (published in the United States in 1939). Although the story is now associated with Parker Pyne, it was included in the 2008 omnibus volume "Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories", which was the first public association of the story with Hercule Poirot since the original Strand Magazine publication of 1936. Aside from "Poirot and the Regatta Mystery", the one authentic Hercule Poirot story not included in any form, whole or partial, in the "Agatha Christie's Poirot" series is the 1930 play "Black Coffee". Although