Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
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Re: Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
#2Beyond being an interesting milestone, the Poirot novels being 100 years old means that each year more of them are entering the public domain. It’s fun to follow along Agatha Christie’s career as an author each year as novels drop: http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
Re: Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
#3If you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe.
If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially interested in German, Dutch, Belgian, and Luxembourgish authors).
Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.
Re: Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
#4If you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe. If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially intere…
> Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.
So the Martin Beck novels by Sjowall / Wahloo are probably on your radar then, for mystery fans that have not seen them they are worth reading.
Also Seishi Yokomizo is a Japanese mystery author that may appeal to Christie fans
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#5I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music!
Re: Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
#6If you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe. If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially intere…
> Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover. So the Martin Beck novels by Sjowall / Wahloo are probably on your radar then, for mystery fans that have not seen them they are worth reading. Also Seishi Yokomizo is a Japanese mystery author that may appeal to Christie fans
Yep, I've read a bit of Martin Beck and Harry Hole.
Re: Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
#7Is there a way to read the article without the paywall?
Re: Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
#8I highly recommend the television series, made by UK's ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot
So sad that netflix doesn't have it any more
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#9Is there a way to read the article without the paywall?
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#10Ha! I grew up in a small (by Indian standards) city in India and our school library for some reason had tons of Agatha Christie. I think I read like 80% of all published Hercule Poirot books between the age of 10-15.