103rd anniversary of his entry into our lives: Who is Hercule Poirot?

Self-taught and homeschooled at the age of five, Agatha Christie wrote Hercule Poirot's first novel, Death Came Quietly after her sister challenged her to write a good detective story. Agatha Christie, who has written 78 detective novels, 100 short stories and 19 plays in her writing career spanning over half a century, has written 6 psychological novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

POIROT'S SMALL GRAY CELLS!

No detective writer other than Agatha Christie has succeeded in creating two world-famous detectives, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple. Poirot's "little gray cells" catch criminals in 33 novels and 54 stories.

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, and John Malkovich.

Although Poirot takes his name from Hercules, one of the most powerful heroes of mythology, he is small and frail with an egg head. He attracts attention with his small lace-up patent leather shoes that always look polished, his vest, his hair combed back, his well-groomed, waxed, bushy mustache, his cane, and of course his fedora, and his elaborate clothing. He has adopted a systematic lifestyle. It is certainly not humble when it comes to its own business.

Hercule Poirot solves the most complex, intricate murders through observational logical analysis (little gray cells!). As if to the reader, “I will choose the bad one among these people. Let's see if you can spot this black sheep."

HORRIBLE, LOUD, ECHANTRIC!

Poirot's aim is for all the pieces of the puzzle to fall into place, for the theory he produced to answer all the questions about the event. As soon as answers are given to all questions, supported by the facts, the case will be solved, in other words, the murderer will be caught.

These are questions that the official police would never think of. The official police even insult Poirot for asking such strange questions. He refers to her as “crazy,” “crazy,” “crazy,” and “eccentric.”

Poirot listens to everyone, examines them while listening, and tries to come to a conclusion by thinking. In the end, he gathers everyone and says the famous sentence “You must be wondering why I called you all here” and explains how he solved the murder with his proud, arrogant attitude.

SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CLASS DIFFERENCES

Poirot is a retired detective and is usually not commissioned, finding himself in the middle of things. When he's on vacation, traveling, when he doesn't want to be disturbed, the murderer finds him and drives him to solve the murder.

It is also possible to learn about the social structure and class differences of the Europe of the period in Poirot's novels. The events usually take place around the nobles or wealthy people living in a particular region. Then we realize that there is a very bad relationship and a tangle of crimes between this envied noble and high society. He knows very well the sick and arrogant mood of criminals with years of experience. Showing them who's smarter is a duel for Poirot.

AGATHA CHRISTIE: 'POIROT, INSULTANEOUS!'

Agatha Christie described Poirot as 'unbearable' in 1930, and in 1960 referred to him as 'hateful, ostentatious, annoying and self-centered'. He even told Ms. Oliver of his famous detective Sven Hjerson, "Of course, he's a fool. But the readers like the man," perhaps revealing his thoughts about Poirot with all his nakedness.

But the reader loves Poirot. Therefore, although Christie gets bored of Poirot and wants to kill him, he does not do so and continues to write Poirot novels. By the way, he did not allow any picture of Poirot to be on the covers of books during his lifetime. Agatha Christie also claimed to have "saw" her inspired Hercule Poirot twice: once while having lunch on the Savoy and once on a cruise to the Canary Islands.

Movies and TV series are part of what made Hercule Poirot so famous. Especially the 70-episode "Agatha Christie - Poirot" series continued for 24 years from 1989 to 2013 and introduced Hercule Poirot to the masses. Famous actors such as Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, David Suchet, Alfred Molina, and Kenneth Branagh, who played Poirot, also made this character more popular.

THE FIRST NOVEL HERO WITH AN OBTAINING WARRANTY

Hercule Poirot dies in 1976. Just as theatergoers want to die on the stage, Poirot dies where he most desires, at the end of a murder investigation. The name of the novel in which he died is Perde. On this adventure, Poirot is again with Captain Hastings, and again, years later, at the Styles mansion where his first novel was written.