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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
Yeah, that's it. Alan isn't in them at all, just did a little intro in the beginning. For the Poirot one he talked about how Christie got really irritated with Poirot in the end (apparantly his mannerisms drove her crazy?)
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yes, i think that's true. in a few poirot novels there is a character named ariadne oliver ; she is a detective writer who created a finnish, vegetarian detective with many quirks. she spends quite a lot of time complaining about how sick of him she is and wondering what on earth possessed her to write such a character. i believe she is agatha's little inside joke allowing her to say how she feels herself about poirot.
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Originally Posted by Slite
I love Poirot both book and TV-wise, David Suchet is so wonderfully, deliciosly obnoxious and selfcentered in a nice way on the TV-series.
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suchet is absolutely brilliant as poirot, for me he's the definitive one.
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Originally Posted by bertold
My favourite Agatha Christie is the one who wrote all those cool
murder mysteries.
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I take it 'Passenger to Frankfurt' won't be in the poll?
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i read it but only once. enough said...
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Originally Posted by Trilby
I love all the Miss Marple ones, but my favorite is Sleeping Murder.
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sleeping murder is definitely very good.