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* [[Always Someone Better]]: subverted, since of course there is no one better than Hercule Poirot. Not even his brother Achille. {{spoiler|Who doesn't exist.}}
* [[Badass Moustache]]: Agatha Christie liked the 1974 adaptation of [[Murder On the Orient Express]], and had but a single complaint: Albert Finney's mustache wasn't magnificent enough!
* [[Big Screwed
* [[Brain Fever]]: in ''Murder on the Links.'' Interestingly, in ''The Big Four'', a doctor dismisses brain fever as an invention of writers.
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* [[The Butler Did It]]: subverted.
* [[Call to Agriculture]]: Poirot, in ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]''.
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* [[The Watson]]: Captain Hastings in the early novels, a variety of one-shot characters in the later books.
* [[We Would Have Told You But]]: He pulls this constantly. Hastings finds this as intensely irritating as the readers do.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Several stories have the twist ending that the apparent victim or bystander who first called Poirot in actually committed the crime, and wanted Poirot there so the police would assume if he couldn't solve it, no-one could. This despite the fact that Poirot's cases get published in-universe so they should know that ''this never works''.
* [[Where It All Began]]: The final novel, ''Curtain'', not only returns to the location of the first, ''The Mysterious Affair at Styles'', but for good measure reunites Poirot and Hastings as well.
* [[You Just Told Me]]:
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