When first published in the magazine The Sketch, the Poirot short story ‘The Chocolate Box’ featured the sleuth mentioning his ‘little sister Yvonne’.ĥ. He is a retired Belgian police officer turned world famous private detective, but Christie had initially considered different detectives for her mystery, including a schoolboy or a scientist.Ĥ. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side…The neatness of his attire was almost incredible I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound."ģ. The first description of Poirot was by Hastings in The Mysterious Affair at Styles who said, "He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity. In her initial version Poirot explained all in a court room setting, but this was changed to a more familiar drawing-room discussion by the time it was published.Ģ. Hercule Poirot first appeared in Agatha Christie’s first published novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which debuted in 1920. We asked Mark Aldridge, author of Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World to update our Hercule Poirot facts to include some of his latest findings.ġ.
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