![]() ![]() But novelist Sophie Hannah, whose Poirot adaptation is coming out this fall, tells The Guardian she is skeptical, calling it "an interesting story, but the fact that Agatha never mentioned it makes me wonder why not? Perhaps unreasonably, I tend only to take things as Agatha gospel if they come from either Agatha's own words, her family, or her ace archivist Dr John Curran." Perhaps we can't have Poirot's origin story, but we can buy his mustache, "made with genuine, healthy human hair." How about a refugee police officer? A retired police officer." Michael Clapp, the retired commander, was researching family history when he came across an old newspaper clipping showing that Christie and Hornais likely knew each other. Why not make my detective a Belgian? I thought. Christie wrote in her autobiography, "We had quite a colony of Belgian refugees living in the parish of Tor. A retired British navy commander thinks he may have found the inspiration for Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in a Belgian refugee and retired policeman named Jacques Hornais who lived near Christie's home in England. ![]() The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. David Suchet (right) as detective Hercule Poirot in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. ![]()
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