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
Hercule Poirot in literature and Hercule Poirot mysteries become rare. In 36 years Agatha Christie wrote only 13 novels and one short story. Some Poirot adventures were later expanded into other stories or re-written. They are: Other stories were adapted by Christie into plays, sometimes removing Poirot: In addition, the 1930 play "Black Coffee" was novelized by Charles Osborne in 1998. Hercule Poirot in literature This page details the books featuring the fictional character Hercule Poirot. The sets of rules involving "official" details of the "lives" and "works" of fictional characters vary from one fictional universe to the next according to the canon established