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Poirot Series - Appointment with Death

ReadinginVienna — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:16:44 +0000

I just turned off the TV after incredulously watching the first 30 minutes of „Appointment with Death“. I usually like the series with David Suchet (he is really great), but this epispde was obviously written by someone who does not care a bit about AC‘s books.

Appointment with Death is one of my favourite AC novels, it really hurts to see it mutilated like this :-(

Watching „Cards on the Table“ was a similar disappointment.

Are there other episodes I shouldn‘t watch?

Character Afterlife

JS88 — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:30:52 +0000

I wonder if anyone thinks about the life of the characters (not Poirot or any of the re occurring ones) once the novel closes. I first started thinking about this because of the end of Taken at the Flood (great story, abysmal end IMHO). I see Lynn Marchmont's marriage to the awful Rowley becoming rapidly controlling and abusive, until after a couple of decades of hell he finally
kills her in a rage but gets off lightly due to a misogynistic legal system.

Then there is the wonderfully disolute George from After the Funeral. Obviously he speeds through his inheritance, and by the early sixties decides to manage a four piece beat combo, absconding with the profits of their first pop hit.

Not to forget Jane Grey from Death in the Clouds. She goes off with the handsome young archaeologist and lives a very happy life, probably writing a load of extremely popular murder mystery novels.

Does anyone else do this, or have I got too much empty time on my hands?

NEW Murder on the Orient Express

glalonzo0408 — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:58:20 +0000

Thoughts?

Poirot and spiritual comments

ScottAllie — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 03:34:55 +0000

My wife is the Christie fan in the family, and I'm doing a comic strip as a gift for her. In the strip I want to have Poirot saying something about Death or the Grim Reaper following a person around, a woman who's borne witness to a lot of death. I've watched a lot and read a little, but I don't know the character well enough to know how to do this and would love some input from an expert. The line I have right now is, "Has the Reaper taken to following around former schoolteachers?"

Evil under the Sun

ashunigion — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:01:46 +0000

Bodies, all lying down like that in a butcher's shop, similar bodies under the sun. One day a body found lying down, dead!. No one believed( reader's perspective) in the superstitious witch-craft, but the child Linda Marshall and the clergyman. Could that be "the cause". Could it be Rosamund Darnley, Kenneth's long ago sweet-heart, or Kenneth himself. The little jig saw puzzle, with scissors, candle blob, burnt-cardboard,
all put in their right places by Poirot's little gray cells.
Mr. Gardener will tell you, this was indeed one of the best AC's novel.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

ashunigion — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 04:41:35 +0000

The novel started with the doubt revolving around Stefen's thought, I then doubted Pilar's thought. Once the murder was committed, it seemed so certain that one of the family members has committed it. The story revolved so smoothly among the house members, like always I was trying to solve the mystery on my own and challenged myself if I could solve it before the denouement. As usual, i failed, and i was utterly surprised. I felt as if my gray cells had reached their limit, it was so intellectually assuaging. :-)

One, two buckle my shoe!

ashunigion — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 07:41:03 +0000

Started reading, One, two buckle my shoe!

Sad Cypress!

ashunigion — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 05:10:12 +0000

Hell everyone!
Yesterday i started reading "Sad Cypress", Anyone willing to start a discussion is most welcome, but please , do not reveal the suspense.

Death on the Nile Release Date!

GKCfan — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:18:07 +0000

It looks like Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile will be out Nov. 8, 2019!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-dates-murder-orient-express-sequel-pushes-alita-1084263

Hercule Poirot Or Sherlock Holmes?

Rounak Ghosh — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:28:16 +0000

Both main characters, Holmes and Poirot, use the powers of intellectual deduction to solve crimes. Both also are attended by assistants whom they underestimate and verbally abuse. Both are also intellectual snobs. Holmes is a cocaine abuser and a scientist, while Poirot is just a natural at deduction. Doyle's novels are set in England, while Christie has her characters traveling wherever crime may be: i.e. Mystery on the Orient Express, Murder in the Mesopotamia and Murder on the Nile. Both authors killed off their serial detectives and wrote books with other characters. Those of Miss Christie's, such as Miss Marple, gained more popularity among readers than Doyle's other books. In literary circles, Doyle is considered an Author with a capital A, while Christie was always thought of as merely a commercially successful writer (female, perhaps?) I personally prefer Christie because her secondary characters are more than just stage dressing for the "great man" to pontificate before.

Poirot Godiva Chocolates

GKCfan — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:16:24 +0000

Godiva Chocolates were given prominent product placement in "Murder on the Orient Express." Has anybody seen these special Poirot chocolates?

https://www.amazon.com/Chocolatier-Assorted-Chocolate-Mustache-Shaped-Chocolates/dp/B075S8Y418/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1513851087&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=murder+on+the+orient+express&psc=1

What do you think of Malkovich's Poirot

a333a333 — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:03:49 +0000

I myself think that he should wear a bigger and blacker moustache and no goatee. I'm not really happy at how he looks like

Terrific commentary track on the Kenneth Branaugh ORIENT EXPRESS

mstrsims2 — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:27:16 +0000

i enjoyed the film and recently got the dvd. Listened to the commentary track with Kenneth and screenwriter Michael Green. I have been a Christie fan for 40 years and they made me see Poirot characteristics and backstory that I had not thought of. Well done! I look forward to his Death on the Nile (if they do one)

Murder on the Orient Express

azil — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:55:02 +0000

I've posted this elsewhere, but not being used to posting I think here is better.
What I need to know is: Please could someone tell me departing station (Istanbul?) and the final station. This is in the book.
Thanks in advance

Third Girl, the book

mstrsims2 — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:45:45 +0000

I just read it again (the last time being 30+ years ago) I found it slow and every few chapters Poirot would sit down and think things over, rehashing everything we already read in the previous chapters. I guessed 1/2 of the mystery but did not see the 2nd part. So no matter what I thought of the book overall----she did trick me again !

Appointment with death

chrisjrock — Sun, 13 May 2018 13:41:19 +0000

This quote about hope confused me could somebody explain please...

Thank you in advance

Curtain

neeko — Sat, 12 May 2018 09:23:36 +0000

I watched the tv adaptation last night ; can someone explain to me how Captain Hastings had an adult daughter , and yet pre-war he wasnt even married ?

Vehicles from Suchet Poirot series

Luke — Wed, 02 May 2018 18:02:17 +0000

Some of the cars and planes ect from the series, some great gems here. I don't know who created this but I think its a great database of information regarding the cars ect from the series.
http://https//www.imcdb.org/m94525.html

Suchet or Ustinov?

Tommy — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:51:06 +0000

As it says in the title, which actor was the better Poirot? Perhaps neither? Suchet has had a longer run but is it a case of less is more?

post war poirot

JS88 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:49:39 +0000

Hello. I am reading the Poirot novels in order of publication and have just finished After the Funeral. I have noticed a lot more of what you might call social commentary in these post war novels, but it seems she puts opinions, both conservative and progressive, in the mouths of characters we are not supposed to particularly admire. Do we know if she was sitting on the fence for commercial reasons or did she have a healthy contempt for all politics, especially after WWII?

Sad Cypress

stephen — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:56:49 +0000

did anyone else find this film very sad and moving? I must admit unashamedly every time I watch this a tear comes to my eye. I think that the film score helps in making this appear a rather sad tale, due to the fact that the majority of the themes are played by the 'cello which is the most mournful of all orchestral instruments. Also, I did find the David Suchet version of Appointment with Death extremely sad and moving (here again helped by the score and with Purcell's Dido's Lament) not for the murdered victim who deserved all she got, but for the way in which she treated her children as she throughly destroyed them and, as I suspect, also the nanny whom she instructed to do the beatings on her behalf.

Has Anyone Identified the Book that Kenneth Branagh's Poirot is Reading?

Madeleine_UTAustin — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:40:16 +0000

When I watched Orient Express in theaters, I was certain that he was reading an AC book instead of Dickens. I was looking up pictures to try and identify which AC book it is, but it actually does look like Dickens's portrait. I can't read the title here, and this is the only picture that I have found so far.

Did anyone else think they saw AC's name on the cover?

Thanks,

Poirot's Brother!

Ariadne — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:03:07 +0000

I recently discovered the fact that Poirot has (had?) a brother - Achille Poirot. It's mentioned, as some of you will know, in The Labours Of Hercules. Is his brother mentioned in any of the other books, does anyone know? Thanks!

Interview with David Suchet in The Strand

GKCfan — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 05:55:33 +0000

It's about fifteen years old, but take a look at this interview with David Suchet for The Strand: https://www.strandmag.com/the-magazine/interviews/david-suchet/.

Murder On The Orient Express Film [ Cast ]

10001savvy — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:02:28 +0000

Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot
Penélope Cruz as Pilar Estravados
Willem Dafoe as Gerhard Hardman
Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff
Johnny Depp as Edward Ratchett
Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen
Derek Jacobi as Edward Henry Masterman
Leslie Odom Jr. as Dr. Arbuthnot
Michelle Pfeiffer as Caroline Hubbard
Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham
Marwan Kenzari as Pierre Michel
Olivia Colman as Hildegarde Schmidt
Lucy Boynton as Countess Elena Andrenyi
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Biniamino Marquez
Sergei Polunin as Count Rudolph Andrenyi
Tom Bateman as Bouc
Miranda Raison as Sonia Armstrong

Check out my lastest blog entry, "Spending Time With Hercule Poirot"

DavidMarcum — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:39:42 +0000

http://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/2017/11/spending-some-time-with-hercule-poirot.html

Check out my latest blog, "Spending Some Time With Hercule Poirot"

DavidMarcum — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:37:09 +0000

http://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/2017/11/spending-some-time-with-hercule-poirot.html

Analysing all 'Murder on the Orient Express' trailers

ridley_forever — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:04:36 +0000

Somehow in the second trailer of Murder on the Orient Express, I found Poirot reading A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens when Samuel Ratchet walks towards him, asking whether he can sit with him.
I was a bit confused at first but then I think I know why he is reading as Kenneth Braughn (actor of Hercule Poirot and director of Murder on the Orient Express) may have been reading it at that time.
I don't know.

Agatha Christie's Poirot Magazine and DVD set

jennyfer.myrick — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:45:37 +0000

Years ago, when I lived in the UK, I ordered the Poirot Collection. I am missing issue numbers 59,70,62 and 63. Does anyone have these that they are willing to part with (more the DVD than the magazine) or know where I can find them? Thanks!

NAME A CHARACTER IN SOPHIE HANNAH’S FORTHCOMING POIROT NOVEL!

GKCfan — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:39:12 +0000

Here's a contest Sophie Hannah is holding for her next Poirot continuation novel.

HOW TO ENTER

It’s simple…
All you need to do is read the character description below and come up with a name that you think will suit the character.
Then enter your idea into the form below and vote on one other entry that you think works well.

The Character

A man in his late fifties: eminently respectable, professional. Smartly dressed, grey-haired, bespectacled. Tall and thin. So ordinary looking that he almost looks sinister – as if the ordinariness and respectability might be a disguise of some kind. He’s the solicitor of the murder victim, and he’s become a longstanding family friend over the years. He handles the deceased’s considerable estate. He has a strong sense of duty but very little imagination. When he is able to help Poirot, it’s by passing on what he knows about the characters of the family members. He is slightly naive, and cannot bring himself to believe that anyone associated with himself might be murdered.

Sophie will announce the winning name on Facebook on Sunday 6th August shortly after 8pm when the competition closes. The winner will also be notified by email.

Sophie’s decision as to which name she uses in the novel will be final, but she will take into account which names are the most popular!

https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Agatha-Christie-Cover-Story/dp/0905895622/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500503578&sr=1-6&keywords=tom+adams+agatha+christie