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‘A Look of Doglike Devotion’: Hercule Poirot’s Stooges and Foils

The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction, 2021
Few detectives are as instantly recognisable as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, the self-described ‘greatest detective in the world’. Almost as recognisable, however, are his various companions—almost invariably English, and always appearing rather more ridiculous, if less eccentric, than the Belgian detective himself. Bernthal considers a variety of
J. C. Bernthal
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Hercules (aka Herakles) and Hercule Poirot

2013
After retelling the myth of Hercules, which focuses upon his 12 labors, I offer some psychoanalytic theories about his temperament. Then I use the myth model to deal with the impact Hercules has had on culture. I suggest, in the realm of popular culture, that weightlifting is an enterprise that is “Herculean” in nature.
A. Berger
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Chapter 8: Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot

2016
The success of Murder on the Orient Express had helped to increase the already substantial interest in the back catalogue of Agatha Christie. It was clear that the future of screen adaptations was now anticipated to be via pictures that replicated Orient Express’s most successful features as much as possible.
Mark Aldridge
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