Agatha Christie her service in September 1918. After the war, Agatha and Archie Christie settled in a flat at 5 Northwick Terrace in St. John's Wood, northwest London. Christie had long been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone", as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. She wrote her own detective novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", featuring Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large "magnificent moustaches" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the
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