![]() ![]() This was their reunion, as the supporting characters hadn’t been featured in the series for almost ten years. In 2013 The Big Four was adapted as part of the final series of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, which starred David Suchet and featured the return of Hastings (Hugh Fraser), Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) and added Miss Lemon (Pauline Moran), all played by the original actors. Read 4193 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. It was translated and published in English in the UK in 2007. The story became a graphic novel in 2006, illustrated by Alain Paillou, and published in France. Critics were similarly dubious about the new offering, concluding that she was not at her best, especially in light of the previous year’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, certainly a tough act to follow. It was finally published in 1927 but Christie was never truly satisfied with the novel and considered it among her least favourites, referring to it as “that rotten book”. ![]() ![]() The original stories were published in 1924 and it was in 1926 that Agatha Christie, in need of a new book, gathered them together with the help of her brother-in-law and submitted them to her publisher. The next morning, one of the passengers is dead from multiple stab wounds, his compartment locked from the inside. Poirot is traveling on the luxurious Orient Express when the train gets stuck in a snowdrift in the dead of night. Poirot enters the world of international espionage in this novel created from a reworked collection of short stories. One of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels, and one of her few locked-room mysteries. ![]()
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