Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939).
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It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
Poirot investigates in Venice in this spooky murder mystery that cherry picks from several Agatha Christie stories.
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The most recent instalment in Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot franchise is not faithful to Agatha Christie’s work, but it is entertaining all the same.
Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot.
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Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
Visitors being taken by boat to Agatha Christie’s house, Greenway, on the River Dart.
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From Emile Brontë’s West York Moors to the mining town where DW Lawrence set Sons and Lovers, there is much literary heritage to be discovered all over the UK.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
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Christie used her Belgian sleuth to unpick ideas of England and Englishness.