Originally posted by Ponderable"... By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot "insufferable", and by 1960 she felt that he was a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". Yet the public loved him and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked..."
Miss Marple is such a nice elder Lady with such good manners.
Poirot is a tad arrogant, isn`t he?
(Hercule Poirot, from Wikipedia)
Originally posted by vanderveldeHe is an alter ego of Sherlock Holmes minus the Kokain and the violine.
I think Poirot is exactly kind of man Mrs. Christie would like to be ig she were a man. Asexual, with a life of an old maid, eccentric, with several compulsive behaviors. Poirot is introvert counter part of Hitler...