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[[File:Les adaptations étrangères d'Agatha Christie par François Rivière et Jean-François Miniac alias Solidor, cliché Miniac..JPG|thumb|400px|A few of the novels featuring M. Poirot]]
{{quote|''"There are moments when I have felt: 'Why-Why-Why did I ever invent this detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature?...Eternally straightening things, eternally boasting, eternally twirling his moustaches and tilting his egg-shaped head...I point out that by a few strokes of the pen...I could destroy him utterly. He replies, grandiloquently: 'Impossible to get rid of Poirot like that! He is much too clever.'"''|'''[[Agatha Christie]]'''}}
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Notable associates of his include: Captain Arthur Hastings, war veteran, secretary and later Argentinian farmer; Ariadne Oliver, irritatingly popular mystery novelist; the Countess Vera Rossakoff, possibly an aristocratic Russian refugee, most definitely a talented conwoman; Miss Felicity Lemon, a most efficient secretary; and of course any number of solid, even stolid, English policemen who good-naturedly allow him to take over their crime scenes. After all, Mr Parrot's only a [[Funny Foreigner]]. What harm could it do?
Many different actors have played Poirot on screen. [[Peter Ustinov]] gained some fame for his many appearances as the character in the 1970s and 1980s, [[Albert Finney]] was nominated for an Oscar for playing him in 1974, but nowadays the definitive portrayal is believed to be [[David Suchet]]'s ''[[Poirot]]''.
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== Novels in this series ==
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