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How Agatha Christie’s great Detective Hercule Poirot was brought back from the dead – Herald Sun
Poet and best-selling novelist in her own right; Cambridge University academic; and now keeper of a flame first lit by the world’s most famous crime novelist, Agatha Christie. Sophie Hannah reveals what it is like to be responsible for the legendary Detective…

Poet and best-selling novelist in her own right; Cambridge University academic; and now keeper of a flame first lit by the worlds most famous crime novelist, Agatha Christie. Sophie Hannah reveals what it is like to be responsible for the legendary Detective, Hercule Poirot.
I read my first Agatha Christie novel when I was twelve years old. It was The Body in the Library. Knowing I loved mysteries, my dad had picked it up for me at a second-hand book fair. From the moment I started to read the …