However it is interesting to note that the Belgian detective’s titles outnumber the Marple titles by more than two to one. In contrast, Christie was fond of Miss Marple. She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot. However, unlike Conan Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her detective off while he was still popular. In fact, by the end of the 1930s, Christie confided to her diary that she was finding Poirot “insufferable”, and by the 1960s she felt that he was an "an ego-centric creep". Like Arthur Conan Doyle, Christie was to become increasingly tired of her detective, Poirot. These publications came on the heels of the success of the film version of Murder on the Orient Express in 1974.
Both books were sealed in a bank vault for over thirty years, and were released for publication by Christie only at the end of her life, when she realised that she could not write any more novels. They were Curtain, in which Poirot is killed, and Sleeping Murder. Her other well known character, Miss Marple, was introduced in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, and was based on Christie's grandmother.ĭuring World War II, Christie wrote two novels intended as the last cases of these two great detectives, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, respectively. Agatha Christie's first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 and introduced the long-running character detective Hercule Poirot, who appeared in 30 of Christie's novels and 50 short stories.
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