Sophie Hanna update on new Poirot Stories.
Dr.Sheppard
Oxford, UK
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT - I'M GOING TO BE WRITING TWO MORE POIROT NOVELS!
From The Bookseller news:
'HarperCollins has bagged two further Hercule Poirot novels by crime writer Sophie Hannah. The publisher acquired world English-language rights for the continuation novels starring Agatha Christie’s iconic character.
The deal was struck by David Brawn, publisher of estates at HarperFiction, with Agatha Christie Ltd and Peter Straus of RCW. The books are to be co-published by William Morrow in the US.
Hannah’s first two Poirot novels, The Monogram Murders, published in 2014, and Closed Casket (2016), were both Sunday Times bestsellers. The new titles will be released in 2018 and 2020 respectively, and will see the Belgian detective investigating two new cases.
Hannah said: “It has been a joy and an honour to work with the Christie family and with HarperCollins on my first Poirot novels. I can’t wait to get to work on his next two cases.”'
Comments
I would comment of the fact that Christie killed off the character Poirot so that no one else could continue writing about him.
Christie wrote Curtain 30 years before it was published. It was meant to be the final book in the Poirot series (hence the name). She published it when she was in ill health and knew she would not write another book. She died the following year. She had done the same thing for the Miss Marple series, but kept her alive at the end.
By 1970 Poirot must have been about 120 - definitely time he was laid to rest!
An extract from an interview with Mathew Prichard n BBC Radio Devon, 27th October 2010.
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Of all the many characters killed off in Agatha Christie's novels, it seems the one she really wanted to bump off was her detective, Hercule Poirot.
The little Belgian restricted her style, according to her grandson, Mathew Prichard.
In an interview with the Radio Times, Mr Prichard reveals she wanted to "exorcise herself of him".
But Poirot had become so popular with her readers that she came to regard him as her "bread and butter".
"She was never short of ideas for books," Mr Pritchard says of his grandmother, who was born in Torquay and had a home overlooking the River Dart at Greenway, near Galmpton in south Devon.
"But some of these ideas were inappropriate for Poirot, so she was very keen to exorcise herself of him by writing different stories with new characters.
"But her agents and publishers, who were in charge of the pounds and pence, were very keen on Poirot. He was her most popular character."
The result, says Mr Prichard, was that Dame Agatha continued to "churn out" Poirot whodunnits
Dr Shephard The Books are set in 1929, The 1st Poirot book came out in 1920 so how you can say that The Books are set in a Time where Agatha Christie didn't write about for Poirot I do not now, The Books may be Brilliant as books but I still don't think they should have been written, That is My Opinion and I reserve the right to say so on any site when anybody's opinion is asked for, If you don't like that Tough.
It may interest you to know after seeing Sophie Hannah on Facebook I sent her a Message with my Thoughts, and Today I had a Reply so if she can put up with my Opinion on the matter That is good enough for me
I shall bear that in mind Tali.