

Here are ten page-turners perfect for celebrating 100 years of the great detective. If you're looking for a compelling Poirot story, then there's no better place to start. This is another sign that Poirot is more interested in bringing his investigation to psychological closure than in enforcing the law.Written by Agatha Christie expert Chris Chan Sheppard is the murderer, but, interestingly, doesn’t turn Sheppard over to the police, instead allowing Sheppard to settle his affairs and die by his own hand. At the end of the novel, Poirot deduces that Dr. Like many fictional detectives, Poirot isn’t motivated by money, or by any concrete reward for his ingenuity rather, he seems to take on cases because of an abstract, philosophical interest in human behavior and a general desire to solve puzzles that seem inscrutable to others. Sheppard to talk about his private medical conversations with a suspect, and he also posts a false story in the newspaper.

Poirot isn’t above bending the rules to solve his crime-in the novel, he convinces Dr. He’s an excellent researcher, who doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty to solve a case however, his greatest strength is arguably his ability to think psychologically, sizing up his suspects’ personalities and assessing their precise motives for committing a crime. Nevertheless, Poirot repeatedly proves himself to be a first-rate detective. A brilliant, often arrogant Belgian with a flair for the dramatic, Poirot can sometimes be irritating to the people around him-his flamboyant continental style clashes with the English characters’ simplicity and directness.

Hercule Poirot is the detective at the center of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, as well as many other Agatha Christie stories, novels, and plays.
