Hercule Poirot available to solve mysteries at an English country house. At the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy towards the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's "casus belli" for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasised the "Rape of Belgium". Poirot first appeared in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (published in 1920) and exited in "Curtain" (published in 1975). Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of "The New York Times". By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot "insufferable", and, by
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is a video game by American studio AWE Productions released for the Windows and Nintendo Wii, and is the third installment of The Adventure Company's "Agatha Christie" series, developed by AWE Productions, based on Agatha Christie's novel "Evil Under the Sun". The Windows version was released in 2007, and the Wii version one year later. "Evil Under The Sun" features Hercule Poirot as the protagonist, unlike the previous game in the series, "", which had featured Poirot as a non-playable character. It also features numerous improvements and expanded