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
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