Agatha Christie was a renowned English crime fiction writer born on September 15, 1890, to a British mother and an American Father. She wrote as many as eighty mystery novels most of which featured either Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot. ‘The murder of Roger Ackroyd,’ ‘Murder on the Orient Express,’ and ‘And then there were none’ were some of her most famous novels. She also wrote many collections of short stories and plays. Many of her novels have been adapted into radio shows, stage dramas, films and television series.
Hercule Poirot is a popular fictional detective appearing in several novels written by Agatha Christie. He is a highly charismatic man of extraordinary intellect. This Detective is described as being short in height with an egg-shaped head. He has an ugly self-afflicted scar on his upper lip and is concealed by the peculiar moustache on his face that slopes upwards acutely on both sides. He attributes most of his ingenious deductions to the ‘little grey cells’ and usually unveils the mystery only at the end of the story in dramatic fashion. He has been the protagonist of more than thirty novels and over fifty short stories.
London Weekend Television (LWT) made a very popular British television series based on this famous character entitled, ‘Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ starring David Suchet as the detective. Granada Television, after the takeover, has been credited with the production of this crime fiction series. ‘Poirot’ began airing in 1989, and since then there have been several episodes broadcasted over the years. There is no doubt that Poirot ranks next only to Sherlock Holmes in the world of detective fiction. | 
