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Originally Posted by Loosheesh
We don't speak French but my country has a very strong French heritage, and I absolutely love Poirot's "colourful foreign decoration" (I like this phrase, btw  ). I just think of them as a character quirk; if he didn't say them he wouldn't be the same Poirot. In any case, I think they're easy enough to look up if you don't know them, and negligible enough to ignore if you don't care to bother looking them up 
Speaking of Georgette Heyer, I found most of her mysteries to have male victims whose heirs are almost always their nephews; what was up with that?
I'm looking forward to starting them |
I used to be able to love every single Poirot book, but recently I had a go at re reading Mrs McGinty's dead, after a gap of 20 years, and I just couldn't finish it. I also didn't like all of the stand alone Christie books and one Tommy and Tuppence book. Christie is alas no longer a surefire hit with me.