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Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
- nrp 6y agoBeyond being an interesting milestone, the Poirot novels being 100 years old means that each year more of them are entering the public domain. It’s fun to follow along Agatha Christie’s career as an author each year as novels drop: http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451 http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoFunny that she is ID 451 considering the censorship of her works.
- 082349872349872 6y agoI was going to say I'm a fan of the 10 little Jägermeisters, but search engines tell me "censorship" of AC refers to on-screen suicide in a Death on the Nile adaptation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4vamT51Nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4vamT51Nw
- eatonphil 6y agoIf you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe. If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially interested in German, Dutch, Belgian, and Luxembourgish authors). Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.
- mdifrgechd 6y ago> Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover. So the Martin Beck novels by Sjowall / Wahloo are probably on your radar then, for mystery fans that have not seen them they are worth reading. Also Seishi Yokomizo is a Japanese mystery author that may appeal to Christie fans
- sandworm101 6y agoRowand Atkinson recently did an amazing take on Maigret, three or four 2-hour episodes iirc. Some of his best dramatic work imho.
- eatonphil 6y agoWow that's cool! Will have to watch.
- sandworm101 6y agohttps://youtu.be/RVQs-DAjrL0 https://youtu.be/RVQs-DAjrL0 The trailer for "Night at the crossroads." https://youtu.be/0QLxIBkewLw https://youtu.be/0QLxIBkewLw https://youtu.be/9atTVOzAGEw https://youtu.be/9atTVOzAGEw
- JustARandomGuy 6y agoSeconding this recommendation. Excellent stories and high quality acting. PBS runs them occasionally late at night.
- 0-_-0 6y agoI was very impressed with the camerawork too! The series is shot in Budapest BTW.
- anonymfus 6y ago> Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels By the way Jean Marais's movies while being not very related to the books are excellent in being very hilarious genre parodies.
- Learning2-2 6y agoThe Pink Panther films are also hilarious parodies of this genre. Peter Sellers as inspector Jacques Clouseau is a blast
- simonblack 6y agoA semi-comedic series is the French 'Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie' which are a re-telling of many of Agatha's mysteries. SBS Australia has it with English Subtitles. Each episode is about 90 minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Petits_Meurtres_d%27Agatha_Christie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Petits_Meurtres_d%27Agatha...
- azepoi 6y agoRecently I know of Kommissar Dupin by Jean-Luc Bannalec (pseudonym), Parot's Nicolas Le Floch, Frédéric Lenormand's Voltaire.
- somberi 6y agoI highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot
- skeptronus 6y agoAfter finishing watching Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes series, I have started watching Poirot. At first it didn't seem as striking to me as Sherlock Holmes(Holmes' and Poirot's character/style is very much different), but after a few episodes, I'm hooked up it, I must say. Highly recommend watching both of them.
- kadal 6y agoSo sad that netflix doesn't have it any more
- TimTheTinker 6y agoMy wife and I have been subscribed to acorn.tv for several years instead of Netflix. It has many eminently watchable shows, especially Poirot and Foyle’s War, my favorite.
- ra7 6y agoNetflix used to carry both a few years ago. It’s a shame not many know about Foyle’s War in the US. Another excellent piece of British television.
- dorfsmay 6y agoIt's available on google for between 3 and 25 $ per season. I just purchased the first season.
- Nux 6y agoTruly an excellent production! Great acting, music, recreation of the era, awesome attention to detail and of course delightful mysteries. It sets the bar very high, to the point it has alas kind of ruined "other Poirots" for me.
- saberience 6y agoIs there a way to read the article without the paywall?
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- wespad 6y agohttps://outline.com/6yf9UP https://outline.com/6yf9UP https://archive.vn/YylTa https://archive.vn/YylTa
- spiderjerusalem 6y agoHa! I grew up in a small (by Indian standards) city in India and our school library for some reason had tons of Agatha Christie. I think I read like 80% of all published Hercule Poirot books between the age of 10-15.
- john-tells-all 6y agoMaybe that is a global phenomenon :) I had the identical experience, in a high school near Washington, DC, USA.
- chrismeller 6y agoHonestly, aside from some of the classics (And then there were none, murder on the links, orient express) the Poirot series is my absolute favorite of any mystery novel ever. Never seen the TV show, but if you can get past the language of the books you can’t beat them.
- sandworm101 6y agoNo suprise there. Her english was exactly the type that indian schools worked to promote in students. I was in a north american boys school. Other side of the planet, but our libraries' fiction sections were probably very similar.
- quickthrowman 6y agoBoth of the books you mentioned have good film adaptations as well! The 1945 film version of “And Then There Were None”, and especially the Sidney Lumet version of “Murder on the Orient Express”. The scene of Poirot laying out his theory for the assembled passengers is amazing.
- teruakohatu 6y agoThe "And Then There Were None" 2015 miniseries is very good version with beautiful cinematography of the island.
- neonate 6y agohttps://archive.is/YylTa https://archive.is/YylTa
- LaundroMat 6y agoOnly today I was asking myself whether Agatha Christie knowingly named him "Leek" (because that's what "Poirot" means). I couldn't find an answer immediately so I'll just wonder about it in here as well and see what happens :)