Hercule Poirot of Police of Brussels, until "the Great War" (World War I) forced him to leave for England. (In "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Poirot had retired at age 55 in 1905) I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked. So much had he become the rage that every rich woman who had mislaid a bracelet or lost a pet kitten rushed to secure the services of the great Hercule Poirot. During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for England as a refugee (although he returned a few times). On 16 July 1916 he again
The Monogram Murders she wanted to avoid reusing any of Christie's supporting cast. "The Monogram Murders" is the first original novel including Hercule Poirot to be commissioned by the Christie estate, more than thirty-eight years after her death in 1976. It is the thirty-fourth novel to feature the character. Agatha Christie wrote her last Poirot novel, "Elephants Can Remember", in 1972. The last featuring Poirot and written by Christie was "Curtain: Poirot's Last Case", published 1975 but written in the 1940s to be a swansong. The Christie estate authorised Charles Osborne to novelise several of her plays. The Monogram Murders The Monogram Murders