Little bits of Poirot

David Suchet on missing Poirot, Lorraine show, May 2 2017 [x] [x]

Poirot’s bespoke suits appreciation

Poirot the middle-aged baby

The moment he realizes it’s taking rather long LMAO

An egg problem

“When Hastings and myself, we first came to the Grand Metropolitan Hotel, there was a man at the desk. He was elderly. He must walk with a stick. But when he goes to his room, which is on the first floor, he proceeds not to the lift that is waiting, no, but to the staircase. It was a performance, Monsieur, but a performance that, to Poirot, did not ring true.”

Agatha Christie’s Poirot, 1990

CAKE OR CASE?

The moustache routine

- Mon Dieu! Look at this, Hastings! I am a corpse waiting to die.

A serial killer dubbed “A.B.C.” is going after people in alphabetical order; an Ascher in Andover, a Barnard in Bexhill, and so on. An ABC Railway Guide is left at each crime scene. The killer is taunting Poirot by sending him disturbing letters, announcing where the next murder will be.