Hercule Poirot in literature Chocolate Box" but for some reason this reference was removed from the later editions. The Poirot books are still under copyright. "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is now public domain in the US but will not become public domain in the UK until 2046 (70 years after Christie's death). Christie's grandson, Matthew Prichard, now owns the copyright to his grandmother's works. In 2014, the Christie estate authorised author Sophie Hannah to write a new Poirot book, "The Monogram Murders". "Short story collections listed as "ss"" Poirot settles down in London and opens a private detective agency. These are the short
Murder in the Mews story was the strongest and that "Triangle at Rhodes" the weakest because, "the psychology of the characters is insufficiently developed to make the solution either predictable or plausible". Isaac Anderson of "The New York Times Book Review" of 27 June 1937 said, "The four stories in this book are all fully up to the Agatha Christie-Hercule Poirot standard, and are about as varied in plot and in the characters involved as it is possible for detective stories to be." "The Scotsman" of 1 April 1937 said "To the ingenuity of Mrs Agatha Christie there is no end. She writes with