Flat in Grade II mansion that was the home of Hercule Poirot in ITV show goes up for £1,950-a-month
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Flat in mansion featured in ITV series going for £1,950-a-month
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Hercule Poirot is now 100 years old, although he never experienced a childhood or an adolescence. Instead he was born by a kind of parthenogenesis, leaping fully formed and middle-aged from the head of Agatha Christie in 1921. The shrewd little Walloon has been poking his nose into criminal set-ups ever since, in 33 novels, 59 short stories and any number of film and television adaptations. While Christie’s other great detective, Miss Marple, inhabited a world of chintz and climbing roses, uncovering the rot at the core of an innocuous English village, Poirot was by nature urban, and urbane. He was also precise, vain, uptight and finicky – the sort of man to wear patent-leather shoes in the Devon countryside, or to take a supply of moustache wax to an archaeological dig.