As written by Christie, Hercule Poirot was born in Belgium and rose to command the Brussels police force before departing for England at the start of World War I. Once there, he met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, worked for the British secret service, and became a private detective. An elderly man from the first novel, Poirot is described as diminutive and dignified, with an upturned mustache, an egg-shaped head that he tilts to one side, and shining green eyes that reveal his clever mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases<\/em> is a collection of eighteen short stories featuring the Begian detective originally published in periodicals between 1923 and 1935. It includes \u201cThe Cornish Mystery\u201d and \u201cThe King of Clubs,\u201d the two 1923 short stories adapted by company member Michael Gotch for the REP presentation of The Poirot Mysteries<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like “The Cornish Mystery” and “The King of Clubs,” Poirot’s first portrait by W. Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960) appeared in the pages of The Sketch<\/em> in 1923. The Sketch<\/em> was a British illustrated weekly magazine published from 1893 to 1959 by the Illustrated London News Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n This unpublished manuscript page shows the start of a chapter by British poet, novelist, historian, and critic Julian Symons (1912-1994) about Poirot’s Early Cases<\/em>. It begins by quoting another of Christie\u2019s 1923 short stories, \u201cThe Chocolate Box,\u201d in which Poirot\u2019s friend Arthur Hastings prompts the detective to recount his only failed case. The character of Hastings likely was modeled after Sherlock Holmes’s companion, Doctor Watson. As written by Christie, Hercule Poirot was born in Belgium and rose to command the Brussels police force before departing for England at the start of World War I. Once there, he met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, worked for the British secret service, and became a private detective. An elderly man from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/agatha-christies-poirot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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