Agatha Christie Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. "Guinness World Records" lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly
The A.B.C. Murders as Hercule Poirot, a version far more comic than mysterious. The story of the 2012 Malayalam film "Grandmaster" draws inspirations from "The A.B.C. Murders". The characterisation of Chandrasekhar in the movie is played by Indian movie veteran Mohanlal is also inspired from Hercule Poirot, the protagonist of the novel. The BBC Radio adaptation "Poirot – The ABC Murders" starring John Moffatt and Simon Williams. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 Saturday, 22 March 2008. Currently rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Agatha Christie's Poirot (1992) The novel was adapted in 1992 for the television series "Agatha Christie's Poirot" with David