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
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