let's just say we do not need to remember. Some have created indelible interpretations that will last for generations. Many of our finest actors have donned the mustache to take on the role on screen. Even 102 years after he first appeared in the novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, we still return to the Poirot well, as Kenneth Branagh's delightful adaptation of Death on the Nile hit the big screen. He has been imagined and re-imagined in every artistic medium one can imagine, not to mention all the characters inspired by (or just plainly ripped off from) him. Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian private detective created by Agatha Christie, has been a favorite character of popular fiction for over a century now.
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