Hercule Poirot

English Etymology From the Agatha Christie character Hercule Poirot. Noun A detective. en "Congratulations. You are the Hercule Poirot of Winchester." Quinn's leaning away, arms crossed; she doesn't want to talk about this. But you can't always get what you want. 101 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Book_of_Lies/32M6DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Hercule+Poirot+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&pg=PA101&printsec=frontcover The Book of Lies Teri Terry 2017 Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt en But Akunin picks a new genre, for his Seagull is a murder mystery. Treplev does not commit suicide, as he does at the end of Chekhov's play; rather, he is killed, and the remainder of the play consists of a series of tableaux, each featuring a different, plausible murderer. The Hercule Poirot of the play is Doctor Dorn - who himself turns out to be one of the possible murderers. An animal rights activist, he objected to Treplev's habit of shooting things, including a seagull. 64 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Akunin_Project/kAEaEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Hercule+Poirot+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&pg=PA64&printsec=frontcover University of Toronto Press The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author 2021 en vii No wonder that he describes himself as the Hercule Poirot of archaeology—a detective who seeks the solution by looking at all the evidence without any preconceptions. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Fire_Signals_of_Lachish/ODULEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Hercule+Poirot+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&pg=PR7&printsec=frontcover 2011 The Fire Signals of Lachish Penn State University Press Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na'aman Derived terms en Poirotesque en Poirotian en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters