Katherine, Hercule Poirot's first wife and great love, haunts him throughout A Haunting in Venice, impacting his relationships and beliefs. Katherine died in a train accident while on her way to visit Poirot in the hospital, leaving him closed off from love and full of guilt.
Interested mainly in solving cases, though with a taste for the finer things in life, Poirot spent 32 novels and 49 short stories as an asexual hero with no love interest or love life whatsoever. Christie even mocked the idea in one of her novels, Mrs. McGinty's Dead.
By the end of the story, Dulcie became Hastings' wife. They had at least two sons and a daughter called Julia, who married a doctor. According to Hasting's narration in Curtain, Dulcie passed away before 1976 where the novel took its place.
Mrs McGinty found the photo of Eva Kane while working at the Upward house, and assumed the photo was of Mrs Upward as a young woman. Evelyn, realizing that any scandal would put an end to his use of Mrs Upward's money, stole the sugar cutter and killed Mrs McGinty before she could tell too many people of her discovery.
Countess Vera Rossakoff is the only woman to whom Hercule Poirot has ever admitted being attracted. The countess' true name is a mystery. She appears in only one novel, The Big Four, and two short stories, "The Double Clue" and "The Capture of Cerberus" (The Labours of Hercules series).
Katherine, Hercule Poirot's first wife and great love, haunts him throughout A Haunting in Venice, impacting his relationships and beliefs. Katherine died in a train accident while on her way to visit Poirot in the hospital, leaving him closed off from love and full of guilt.
In this sense, it just underlines the asexual qualities of Poirot that Suchet seems keen to portray. Pauline Moran has said the following on the matter: 'Miss Lemon adores Poirot.
While I enjoyed the mystery in this book, I did find that it went around in circles. There were a lot of clues and they all seemed to come back to figuring out the significance of a newspaper clipping that Mrs. McGinty had saved a few days before she died.
McGinty's Dead. S11 E1: Poirot (David Suchet) takes on his toughest challenge yet as he races to prove a convicted killer is innocent. Mrs McGinty was killed by a brutal blow to the head, and her lodger James Bentley (Joe Absolom – Vincent) is sentenced to hang for the murder.
She in unmarried (though “in The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman, she has an admirer”) and has a sister (who enlists Poirot's expertise in Hickory Dickory Dock). One of the few Moran traits never ascribed to Miss Lemon, however, were the actress's chops on the electric guitar.
One of the benefits of becoming a famous detective was that with every case, Poirot became more affluent. As the years went by, Poirot earnt a large fortune from his detective work; which he invested a significant portion into the care and maintenance of his favourite personal feature.
After 12 years and four series of absence, Japp made his final apperance in the series within the 2013 adpatation of The Big Four. Here, Japp served as the deuteragonist instead of Hastings, who became a rather minor character that only appeared in Poirot's (false) funeral and the ending.
READ: Did you spot this royal family member in Agatha Christie's Poirot? While Hercule never marries, he has one love interest throughout the series who appears only briefly in one novel and two short stories, The Big Four, The Double Clue and The Capture of Cerberus.
When did Agatha Christie write Mrs McGinty's dead?
Mrs McGinty's Dead was first published in a US magazine in 1951 under the title Blood Will Tell, before being published as a novel in 1952 as Mrs McGinty's Dead. Christie dedicated the book to theatre producer Peter Saunders, 'in gratitude for his kindness to authors.
Tom Holt – He's written a huge amount of stand alone comic fantasy novels and a few short series. His humour is a bit different to Pratchett's so maybe try and standalone and see if he's your cup of tea. Neil Gaiman – well, pretty much anything he's written is worth a read.
Unmarried despite her pretty looks, kindness, reliability and good manners, due to the carnage of World War I, which killed an entire generation of young English men, Miss Lemon has had to make her own way in life on small means.
Through his long career, he has made many friends and, also, made enemies. However, though, despite these various enemies—such as criminals—and being in danger at different points, Poirot does not have one, constant enemy. Indeed, his death is also, ultimately, at his own hand.
