All language subtitles for Agatha Poirot Partners In Crime (2021).eng

There's nothing more British
than Agatha Christie.

Since the publication
of her first book 100 years ago,

she's been delighting us with
fiendishly clever murder mysteries

set in the charming villages
and grand homes of our nation.

Yet it took someone quite un-British
to solve the crimes in her stories.

Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective
with a brain like no other.

'Agatha launched him
into the world a century ago,

'and they've been
partners in crime ever since.

'Like millions of others,
I adore them both,

'but Agatha Christie,
just like Poirot,

'didn't give much away.'

And both seem to be,
well, mysterious cases.

So now I want to turn
the investigation back onto them.

'Agatha Christie
is the Queen of crime.'

This master of storytelling.

She is on it every time,
every page, every book.

'And Hercule Poirot
was always by her side,

'on page and on screen.'

Hercule Poirot
is a private detective.

Hercule Poirot is irresistible,
he has star quality.

He has this extraordinary brain.

Always I am right, it is
so invariable it startles me.

'But how do they conquer
the world together?

'With the help
of some famous faces...'

Loosen your belts...
LAUGHTER

..it's gonna get messy.

'A host of experts...'

She describes cleaning them
with a bit of dental equipment

and her face cream.

Weapons, wounds, trace evidence,
it's all there.

'..access to her family
and their private archives...'

I think she will always be here

and while she's always here,
Poirot will be here.

'..and the locations
that shaped Agatha's work.'

This was nicknamed
"the best hotel west of The Ritz."

'This is the story
of the greatest crime duo ever.'

I think I Agatha Christie
and Poirot will be forever.

No-one else has come close.
They just haven't.

Agatha Christie was a Devon girl,

she drew upon the county
of her childhood

for so many of her stories.

Creaky country houses,
the vicars on their bicycles,

and the chocolate box villages
with a secret behind every door.

It's not the obvious home
for a Belgian detective

with a fondness for order
and cleanliness.

But it's in Devon
that Agatha found Poirot.

'Agatha Christie
was born in 1890 in Torquay,

'a popular holiday spot
for wealthy Victorians.'

Devon was a massive part
of her life,

a part of her being, I think.

She certainly felt happier
here than anywhere else.

'Her family
lived in a large villa

'with spacious grounds
on the edge of town.'

That genteel, upper-middle-class
childhood that she had,

it's there through the books.

'Agatha's father died
when she was 11.

'From this point on, she became
incredibly close with her mother.'

Agatha Christie's home life
was a matriarchy

that the women
were in positions of power

and that the women
held a lot of importance.

They're right there
and they have big personalities

and they have the same desires
and needs as the men

and I really,
I love that about her writing.

'Agatha had a brother and sister,
10 and 11 years older than her,

'meaning she grew up
largely in her own company.'

She was like an only child, because
she spent so much time on her own

and in her own world,
playing her own games.

I'm an only child
and I know that, growing up,

I didn't have anybody else
to play with.

And making up stories
and acting out different scenarios

and coming up
with different characters.

'Although Agatha's mother

'decided against
giving her a formal education,

'she still found her own sources
of knowledge.'

Agatha Christie
taught herself a lot.

She was obviously
incredibly motivated,

she was obviously incredibly clever,
incredibly imaginative.

'By her late teens, Agatha
had started writing as a hobby.

'Before long,
she had short stories and poems

'published in local magazines,

'but for her talent
to become a career,

'it took a challenge
from her older sister.'

I gather that she'd been reading
a lot of murder mysteries

and saying, you know,
"I could do this,"

and her sister said,
"Well, why don't you?"

To get the best out of someone,
you need to be challenged,

you need to be pushed
to become the best

and I think it was interesting
seeing Agatha Christie

being pushed by her older sister
to write a novel.

'Even much later in life,

'Agatha would describe
the origin of her career

'as an accident.'

Why are you so fascinated by crime?

I don't know
that I'm really fascinated by it,

I just began writing about it,

then one continues,
doesn't one, usually?

I always liked detective stories.

'Agatha's debut novel,
The Mysterious Affair At Styles,

'was published in the UK in 1921.'

An immediate success,
it introduced the world to someone

who would go on to be Agatha's
longest life companion,

Hercule Poirot.

A retired police officer
from Belgium,

Poirot was like no other detective
seen before in fiction.

He does drop in to Styles
perfectly formed.

Poirot is incredibly methodical,
he's incredibly, obviously, clever.

He's also meticulous,
he's also vain,

but at the end of the day,
he has a twinkle

and you respect him.

Hercule Poirot is one
of the greatest creations

in all literary fiction.
There's no question of it.

'Agatha Christie
would write 33 novels,

'three plays and 69 short stories
featuring Poirot.'

She's sold on all four corners
of the earth,

she's sold more books
than any other novelist.

She's, you know,
been published in more languages

pretty much than anyone,
it's a pretty extraordinary story.

I imagine there is
a generation of crime writers

that would hold Agatha Christie up
as their leading light.

I'm the author of the Murder
Most Unladylike mystery series.

My detective Hazel
has a lot to do with Poirot,

and the logic puzzles they solve,

the kind of very tight, enclosed
murder mysteries they solve

are really, completely based
on Agatha Christie's mysteries.

So I'm an author
who is really inspired by her.

I am the author of four continuation
novels starring Hercule Poirot.

I first discovered Poirot when I
read Murder On The Orient Express.

It felt like
a sort of Eureka moment.

I have loved him ever since.

'Poirot is also the star
of a major Hollywood movie franchise

'starring Sir Kenneth Branagh.'

My name is Hercule Poirot,

and I am probably the greatest
detective in the world.

'Yet it's through the television
that most of us know Poirot.

'From 1989 to 2013,

'the iconic detective was beamed
into our living rooms every week

'with David Suchet
taking the lead role.'

The original series
was a huge Sunday night treat.

Beautifully produced,
wonderful production values,

a fantastic lead actor.

It seems as if you have thought
of everything, Monsieur Doyle,

except for one thing...

Hercule Poirot.

They've allowed us,
the televisual sort of generation,

to enter into Agatha's world

in a way that no-one
would ever have dreamt of.

Me and Monsieur Poirot
have met before.

There's no man's judgement
I'd sooner take than his.

If I'm not greatly mistaken,
he's got something up his sleeve.

Well, I will tell you this.

If you arrest
Monsieur Alfred Inglethorp,

it will bring you no kudos.

The case against him
will be dismissed comme ca.

It is about nostalgia,
it's about old England.

It gives the audience
a sense of pleasure

to see pretty countryside
and lovely costumes.

I love the fact
that you can sort of smell

the cigarette smoke in the air,

you know when those women
walk into the room

there will be a rustle of silk.

I think we can agree
I'm not short on motive.

Or opportunity.

By your own admission,
you enter the compartment

of Madame Ruth Kettering
and rifle through her possessions.

Oh, you had the desire, Senora,
and the passion necessaire,

to commit a crime of such atrocity.

Est ca c'est la verite?

'Through the long-running ITV
series, Poirot reached an audience

'far beyond anything Agatha
could have imagined

'when she introduced him
to the British public in 1921.

'Like Agatha,
Poirot was formed in Torquay,

'where locals are immensely proud
of their connection to both of them.

'At the town's museum,
manager Carl Smith

'has been given access to some of
Agatha's private notebooks

'that reveal secrets of how she
created her stories and characters.'

In front of me, I have
a copy of a handwritten article

that was written
by Agatha Christie in 1938.

"How did the character
of Hercule Poirot come into being?

"It was the early autumn of 1914,

"Belgian refugees
were in most country places.

"Why not have a Belgian refugee,

"a former shining light
of the Belgian police force."

'During World War I, 250,000
Belgian refugees entered Britain,

'many settling
in Agatha's county of Devon.'

Her work always seemed to be organic
and coming out of a real scenario.

And then she would sort of secrete
those people that she watched...

in the characters that she wrote.

Belgium had a very special meaning
to the British.

Poor little Belgium was a phrase
that was used all the time.

British middle-class families
knitted socks for Belgian children.

It was a thing, you know,
that everyone would have recognised.

They had a victimhood,
so there was a dignity about Poirot.

He wants to know why we have
to speak English all of the time.

He finds it tiring.

Hmm.

Because, Monsieur Van der Stadt,
in this country, we are the guests.

If we are to gain
the confidence of the natives,

we must learn their ways.

'Poirot was quite unlike
anyone else he met

'on his adventures through Britain.'

I see you have joined the cavalry?

Poirot is not
a pint-and-pork-scratchings man.

Let's face it.

I say, do you fancy a pint of beer
if there's any left?

Non, merci.

I cannot yet bring myself
to enjoy the English public house.

'Poirot was not only different to
the other characters in her stories,

'he was also quite unlike
Agatha herself.'

"He should be very neat,
very orderly.

"Is that because I'm such
a wildly untidy person myself?"

I think were seeing something

of a mirror-image of Agatha Christie
in Poirot.

That were seeing lots of things

that perhaps are not important
to her or not strengths of hers

seem to manifest themselves
in Poirot.

She is incredibly messy,
he is incredibly precise.

So she probably created him that way
to be completely outside of her.

Hastings, you dressed in haste,
your tie is to one side.

'Agatha also created
Captain Hastings,

'Poirot's
long-suffering side kick,

'who struggled to keep up
with the meticulous investigations.'

Did it not strike you as peculiar...

He's not the sharpest tool
in the box,

but, I mean, compared to Poirot,

anyone would be lacking
in a few grey cells, I think.

I'm pleased of you, Hastings.

You have a good memory and have
given to me, faithfully, the facts.

But of the order in which
you present them, I say nothing.

Truly it is deplorable.

Hastings tolerates Poirot's
idiosyncrasies, too,

which can become
a little tedious, sometimes.

'Poirot's biggest idiosyncrasy
was his obsession with tidiness.

'Although tedious to some, it made
him an extraordinary detective.'

He's a character that you kind of
you're slightly frustrated by

because you just think,

"Just let it go, just let go,
just let go and stop being so held,"

but at the same time the way
he gets to his point

and the way he gets
to the conclusion

is just very, very entertaining.

'In his debut outing,

'he makes a key breakthrough by
rearranging items on a mantelpiece.'

I remember that
when you and I were together

in the room of Madame Inglethorp,

'that I already
straightened the ornaments.

'Now, if they were
already straightened,

'there would be no reason for me
to have to straighten them again.'

Something that would have connected
to the murderer with the crime.

Unless someone in the meantime
had touched them.

He's a man that watches things very
closely, he's like a great chef.

Because it is all about
looking into the detail

and seeing things
that other people can't see.

Agatha Christie sums up
one of the greatest characters

of all fiction in three words,

"little grey cells."

A great detective
needs a great brain.

And that's what Poirot has.

Oh, yes.

The little grey cells
have done well today.

For 100 years, audiences and readers
have been thrilled by Poirot's

quirky yet meticulous
approach to crime solving.

We always know Poirot will catch the
murderer, explain how they did it,

and perhaps tidy a few mantelpieces
along the way.

But in his first outing,
Agatha didn't give him an easy ride.

She drew on
her own experiences in war

to devise a method of killing

that could deceive
even the keenest of eyes.

In Poirot, Agatha Christie
had created the perfect detective.

A Belgian refugee living in Britain,

he studied every case
with a detached gaze of an outsider.

And she gifted him
with a great brain.

The little grey cells
of which he is so proud.

But in her debut novel, Agatha
tested that brain to the limit.

'In her first book,
The Mysterious Affair At Styles,

Poirot was confronted
with a murder victim

who appeared to have been poisoned.

Why did you want to know if
Mrs Inglethorp ate well last night?

The contention of the present

is that Madame Inglethorp died
of the strychnine poisoning. No?

Agatha Christie likes a poisoner.

She loves a bit of poisoning.

Poison is a wonderful weapon for her

because it is, to all intents
and purposes, bloodless.

It is a clean death, it is something
that anybody, as well, can use.

'Agatha picked up
her unique knowledge of poisons

'while working as a nurse
in Torquay's military hospital

'during World War I.

'Forensic scientists and murder
mystery obsessive Carla Valentine

'has researched Agatha Christie's
medical background.

Agatha would have had
a baptism of fire.

She would have seen things
that she had never seen before.

Blood and gore, stitching,
amputations, bloody floors.

It really was a huge
new experience for her

and, you know, one that shaped
her character for years to come.

'Before long,
Agatha was keen to move away

'from the gruesome
front line of nursing.

'So she specialised
as a dispensary nurse,

'preparing medication for patients.'

So what she had to do
was she would mix powders,

and she would mix solutions,
and she would make pills, pessaries,

ointments,
even, you know, medications.

And it really was
a very specialist job.

'In her debut Poirot story,

'Agatha's poison of choice
was strychnine.'

I would like your consent
to a postmortem, then.

That's not necessary,
surely it was a heart attack?

Oh, no, I'm sorry.

Mrs Inglethorp showed classic
symptoms of strychnine poisoning.

Can't be!

'Although steadily
in large quantities,

'it was an everyday medicine
if used safely.'

The effect of it on the nervous
system, in small doses,

wouldn't kill you, but it would
sort of pep you up a little bit.

A lot of the time,
it would be even used by old ladies.

Everything in her life
seems to have been organic,

and she sees it, grabs it
and utilises it.

She was so meticulous about writing
about poisoning and poisons,

that the poison society

commended her writing
about poisoning.

There, you see.

Already the strychnine
is beginning to precipitate

and fall to the bottom.

In a few hours,
it will form colourless crystals.

Which remain at the bottom
of the liquid?

Which remain at the bottom
of the liquid.

'Poison would go on to be

'one of Agatha's
favourite methods of murder.

'She killed five characters
with strychnine,

'eight with arsenic,
and 18 with cyanide.'

She clearly learnt as much

as she could possibly learn
about poison

and then dripped those
poisonous moments

into her novels and
her short stories forever after.

In the laboratory
on the previous afternoon,

you would have seen Caroline Crale
steal the poison.

Monsieur Blake had his back to the
room while he was talking to you,

so it was perfectly possible
for you to see her.

The only person who could do so.

'A few years
into her writing career,

'Agatha and her husband Archie
moved out of London

'to the nearby commuter town
of Sunningdale.

'Archie was a fan of golf

'and enjoyed the towns courses
a little too much.'

I suppose that's
when things started to go wrong.

The golf became a symbol, if you
like, of their diverging ways.

She described herself
as a "golf widow."

'As Agatha's marriage
started to suffer,

'she found comfort in
the clear logic of Hercule Poirot.

'In 1926, she published
her most celebrated story yet,

'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.'

Everything changed, really,
with The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.

It still obsesses people

because it is probably
the perfect detective story.

'In this rarely heard interview
from her family archives,

'Agatha reveals
how her perfect detective story

'was one of the hardest to write.'

CHRISTIE: These are the little
plots that tease at one,

one likes to think of,
one knows one is going to write.

That was much like Roger Ackroyd...

which played about in my mind
for a long time

before I could get the details
fixed.

I think we all agree
that The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

is the ultimate detective story.

The best ever
piece of fiction of its kind.

POIROT: "My little book is about
the murder of Roger Ackroyd,

"the events leading up to it,

"the subsequenct
numbskull investigation

"and the final revelation,
to you alone, dear reader,

"of the guilty party."

'This game-changing book challenged
the rules of crime fiction.

'The murderer's identity
is so unexpected,

'that it draws into question
every page,

'every word that has gone before.'

As we move towards
the end of the novel,

she performs a fantastic trick,
but she does it so well

that she absolutely misdirects
the reader

in a way that really very few people
would be able to anticipate.

That was the story that put Agatha
way up on that plinth.

And no-one will ever get her down
because of that book.

POIROT: "The true stories
of these murders most dreadful

"must, for the moment,
remain a secret.

"The last favour, if you will,

"to a man that I once looked on
as a friend."

The shock of who the murderer is

resounds to this day
through the whole genre.

Once she did that, other detective
writers just bowed down and said,

"She is the Queen, there is...
none of us can touch her."

And if you haven't read it,
I'd urge you to read it.

It's wonderful.

And see if you think
you can tell who did it,

and the chances are you won't.
LAUGHTER

'As Agatha's career
reached a new peak,

'her private world was crumbling.

'Husband Archie revealed

'he had started a relationship
with a younger woman.

'And, around the same time,
Agatha's mother died.'

In the winter of 1926,

Agatha Christie
was at her lowest ebb.

But then her life took a turn

as dramatic as anything
in her stories,

and her private turmoil
became public.

'On December 4th,
her car was found abandoned

'at a beauty spot in Surrey
on the edge of the North Downs.

'Before long, police
were investigating the incident

'as a missing persons case,
and it was front-page news.'

The tabloids must have just
not been able to believe it

because it's just like,
it could have been one of her books.

You've got a woman missing,

a car parked on the North Downs
in the middle of nowhere,

you've got a husband
who's run off with a younger woman.

She's on the front page
of every newspaper for gossip.

You know,
she's basically being trashed

by the poor behaviour
of her husband.

'Agatha Christie biographer
Laura Thompson

has returned
to the Surrey countryside

where police and public
searched furiously for Agatha.

These are the police files
from the case.

"She might have fallen down

"one of the numerous gravel pits
that abound there.

"Or she might have been, as was
strongly suggested to the police,

"the victim of a serious crime."

The police wondered whether Archie
Christie might have been involved.

Could he have made her disappear?

I mean, after all,
when it comes to murder,

the domestic murder
is the most common murder.

'But the grim headline everyone
had been braced for never came.

'Because, on the morning
Agatha's car was found abandoned,

'she had in fact made her way
to London and, from there,

'she caught a train home
to Harrogate in Yorkshire.'

We sort of gathered
that she had lost confidence

in herself and her marriage,
and was despairing,

and thought "To hell, I don't want
to be anywhere near him and home,"

and goodness knows,
I know exactly how that feels.

'She took a room in a spa hotel
then known as the Harrogate Hydro.'

I think her heart was broken.

So the crisis that she was in
at that time,

I think, absolutely makes
perfect sense of her running away.

'During her stay, Agatha appeared
to be a normal hotel guest.'

She seemed fine
to the people around her,

but I'm pretty sure
that was a front.

The thing you do
when you've just had a break-up

and you're trying to show your ex
how fine you are,

that you're great,
you're having a lovely time

and you don't even remember them.

'After nine days, on December 10th,

'two staff members
informed the police

'that they believed Agatha Christie
was staying at the hotel.

'And the next day,
her disappearance ended.'

There, sitting by the fire,
was her husband Archie...

who had come up with a policeman.

I mean,
it must have been extraordinary.

'With the press gathering
at the hotel front entrance,

'they attempted to escape
via another route.

'They had to be bright idea
of going out to the side entrance,

'but The Daily Mail was onto that,
and they were waiting for her there

'and got this amazing
shot of this blank face.'

SHUTTER SNAPS

I suspect it felt alarming
and overwhelming, you know,

the fame wasn't earned,
it wasn't from her books,

it was from something
she did in her private life

that became public.

The truth is,
Agatha Christie wrote fiction,

she didn't want to be
a character in a fiction.

'Archie told reporters
that Agatha's disappearance

'had been caused
by a loss of memory.'

I think most people would accept

that she was going through
an incredibly stressful time.

She obviously had
some breakdown of some sort.

Even now, we still don't
really know what happened.

I mean,
we know she was in Harrogate,

but we don't really know
why for that long

and why she just went
for radio silence

and didn't come out of hiding.

I suppose you could say

it was, like, just a typical
Agatha Christie thing to do.

'Agatha and Archie divorced
after the disappearance.

'And some would say
there was a marked change

'in her depiction of Poirot
in the following years.'

I think an experience like that
does alter you and,

if you're altered,
your books are altered.

Poirot becomes, I think, slightly
softer, slightly more mature.

You must look to the future.

SHE SCOFFS
Oh, she'd love that.

I am thinking of you.

You have before you your whole life.

We get a glimpse
at Hercule Poirot's heart.

You can see that there has been
a possibility of love in his eye.

After the media frenzy
surrounding her disappearance,

Agatha Christie was front-page news
for all the wrong reasons.

With heavy scrutiny
from press and public alike,

Britain was starting to feel
like a prison.

But Agatha would discover
a new freedom through foreign travel

that would liberate her imagination
like never before.

Agatha Christie
had always been curious

about the world beyond Britain.

After her divorce from Archie,
she indulged her curiosity

by travelling abroad alone,

picking up new stories
for Poirot along the way.

But it wasn't until she boarded
a luxury train bound for Istanbul

that she would discover Poirot's
greatest adventure yet.

'In 1928, Agatha took her
first journey on the Orient express.

She uses her independent spirit
to go travelling...

on her own.

This is 100 years ago,
this is unusual.

You have to remember
how rare it was

for the British reading public
to travel outside Britain.

But, early on, she made enough
money to afford to travel en luxe,

go on these grand trains
like The Orient Express.

What a woman.
I mean, what a woman!

She was a trailblazer
in so many different ways.

'Agatha would have started
her train journey

'at Victoria Station in London,

'which she described as "the gateway
to the world beyond England."

'Today, the luxury train provider
Belmond

'runs services that recreate
the comfort and elegance

'that she would have enjoyed.'

'Agatha Christie fan and actress
Joanna Page

'has come to discover
why this opulent mode of transport

'had so much appeal.'

The first time I started reading
Agatha's novels

was when I was quite young.

I think I leapt from Enid Blyton
to Agatha Christie.

Trains are just such a lovely place
to let your imagination just wander.

I mean, you're sitting on there
for such a long time,

meeting lots of different people.

It's just the perfect place for
stories just to unfold in your mind.

She just must have been lapping up
all of these different countries,

and all of the different locations,

and just putting it
into each of her books.

I just think that's just wonderful.

Good morning, madam,
and welcome on board

the Belmond British Pullman.

I can imagine why Agatha Christie
would love train travel like this.

Because it's just so indulgent,
and you just feel so special.

'Agatha Christie became a regular
traveller on The Orient Express

'and referred to it
as "a familiar old friend."

'The long meandering journey
from west to east

'would prove to be a gift
for a prolific writer like Agatha.'

There's something incredibly
glamorous about that period.

And the idea of sitting down
for dinner

with the most beautiful,
white linen tablecloth

and silver service

and people coming in long, slinky
gowns and cigarette holders.

There is something about that period
that is just captivating.

To have a train travelling
across Europe around the world,

seeing all the different countries
with that level of food and service

and hospitality and luxury,
I always found that quite special.

'Agatha's love of luxury train
travel

'would provide her with a backdrop
for Murder On the Orient Express.'

'Inspired by her early experience

'of being trapped on
the Orient Express after flooding,

'the story pivots around
12 characters brought together

'after a snow drift
blocks the train's path.'

Murder on the Orient Express has
lots of things going for it.

The train is obviously,
almost an extra character in it.

It is the ultimate in luxury.

Agatha Christie is at her best

writing what one might think of
as locked room mysteries.

Where there is a small number
of people in a contained space.

You do feel airless and trapped,
and unable to get away.

That is frightening.

Everyone's in danger and everyone's
looking over their shoulder.

Everyone's, you know,

checking everyone and everything
all the time,

and it's a genius device.

To put mystique and betrayal
in that confined space,

again with these very well-to-do
characters, you know,

the last thing
you'd expect is a murder.

There is a murderer among us.

It's the deep, dark, psychological
stuff that really floats my boat,

why people do dark and bad things.

Everybody's scared. Or are they?

Everybody could have done it,
or could they?

Everybody could be a victim,
everybody is a victim.

Who's going to be bumped off next?

And you've got Poirot there
to solve it, or not to solve it.

'It's not only the intriguing plot,
mysterious characters

'and stunning location that has
captured the imagination,

'it is also Agatha's
devilishly clever finale.'

The end of Murder On The Orient
Express leaves Poirot

with a moral dilemma.
What is he to do?

Because justice must be done.

Poirot is in real trouble,
and it's good to see him squirm.

Ladies and gentlemen...

..I have understood, in this case,

the scales of justice
cannot always be evenly weighed.

And I must learn, for once...

..To live with the imbalance.

I think it genuinely does
have the most ingenious

solution to a mystery in the whole
of detective fiction.

I've never come across
a cleverer solution.

'Today, anyone travelling
on the Orient Express

'is transported back
to the romance and intrigue

'of Agatha's iconic story.

'It seems author and train
will be forever linked.'

If I said to anybody, 'What's the
most romantic train in the world?'

They would say,
'The Orient Express.'

Everybody knows the Orient Express.

Pleasingly, I haven't been
on a train journey

where a murder has occurred.
That's a nice thing.

But I have, been, indeed,
on this train.

There is a sense of excitement,
event about it.

By the 1930s, Agatha Christie
was on her way

to being a national treasure.

Her ingenious plots
had secured her place

as the most popular crime writer
in the country.

But she was forever curious
about worlds beyond our shores.

When the Middle East beckoned,

she would discover one of her
most celebrated mysteries ever.

'Agatha Christie had a lifelong
passion for archaeology.

'Historian Bettany Hughes, has come
to the British Museum to explore

'the role the past played
in her writing.'

I think archaeology really
appeals to Agatha for two reasons.

First, because she is
actually very precise,

and she likes to arrange
evidence in a particular way.

But she is also a storyteller and
someone who loves solving mysteries,

so the fact that archaeology is
a science where you have to find

the answers by jigsaw puzzling
together the clues,

I'm sure would have appealed to her.

I think she was really
a frustrated archaeologist

through most of her life.

'In 1930, aged nearly 40,

'Agatha travelled to Iraq
to attend an excavation.'

How brilliant that someone who liked
to dig around in people's lives

and their behaviours went to dig
around in people's past lives

and their past behaviours.

'It's here that she met
archaeologist, Max Mallowan.

'Within six months of meeting,
they were married.'

So, these are ivories that were
found by Max Mallowan in Iraq.

We know that she adored
helping Max find and restore them.

So, she worked
kind of as an archaeologist by day,

and then by night,
she would sit and write her books.

'Before long, The desert
lands of the Middle East

'became the settings
for Agatha's stories.

'Murder In Mesopotamia

'brought Poirot to an archaeological
dig in Iraq.'

You'd have been a good
archaeologist, Mr Poirot.

You have the gift...

..Of recreating the past.

He actually describes his work
as being like archaeology.

Burrowing around, trying to find
the truth and trying to find clues

and piece them together.

Agatha herself talks about putting
aside debris

to find the shining truth.

That is what both
authors and archaeologists do.

Facts, Hastings. Facts.

Those are the cobbles that make
up the road along which we travel.

'It wasn't all work for Agatha
and Max when they travelled.

'During a holiday to Egypt,
they boarded a steamboat

'and travelled down the Nile.'

I have done a trip down the Nile
on a boat.

I have done one of those trips.

And it is one of the
most interesting,

romantic things you can do.

I've been on that boat
down the Nile.

I've done it,
and it's exhilarating. You know?

You're down the Nile,
you pass the Valley Of The Kings,

you get a shiver over you.

'Agatha's slow boat through Egypt
became the inspiration

'for one of her most enduring
mysteries.

Death on the Nile.'

There's something about this place.
Don't you think?

Something unsettling
one can't quite resist. Oui.

For Agatha Christie and her husband,
Max, to go down the Nile...

..Must have been absolutely
fascinating.

She will have looked
at those characters,

like on The Orient Express,
who were on that boat and thought,

'Oh, my goodness.
There's a murder mystery here.'

You refuse to help, Monsieur Poirot,
and look what happens.

But this is not of my making,
Madame.

But how could she have
known that we would be on the boat?

But if you are suggesting...

I'm suggesting nothing, Monsieur,
but I will tell you this.

Everybody hates me.
OK? I'm surrounded by enemies.

The reason Agatha Christie
is such a genius

is she gets
the three essentials right.

Plot, character, location.

She's clear about all of them.
And the locations are wonderful.

'Death On The Nile and
Murder On The Orient Express

'secured Agatha Christie's
reputation as a writer

'who could take Poirot and fans

'on captivating journeys
into unknown lands.'

'But which was her
favourite Poirot story?'

A lady wouldn't say easily.
Oh, I should think...

..I think it's very good for fans...

Perhaps
the Murder On The Orient Express.

'As Agatha's success
reached new heights,

'she turned more and more to the
familiar settings of Devon and home,

'where both she and Poirot
would uncover

'some of the most shocking murders
of their careers.'

QUIETLY: Is that what you have
feared has happened, Madame?

Le mort?

Well, you don't mean...
You don't mean... Oh, Marlene.

Agatha Christie found inspiration
wherever she went,

be it on a train journey through
Europe or a holiday on the Nile.

But nothing provided more material

for her extraordinary imagination
than the familiar places of home.

It was here, in Britain,
that she was able to bring Poirot

directly into her life.

'In 1938,
Agatha Christie bought Greenway.

'A gorgeous house on the banks
of the River Dart In Devon.'

She had the money to look
for a house, and famously,

she came down here one day
and virtually bought it on sight.

It is the most amazing place.

It is also an incredibly private
place.

And it was her
happy place for a very long time.

A great, Georgian house,
about 1780 or 90.

Woods sweeping down to
the Dart below. The perfect house.

My wonderful
and most beautiful possession.

'Agatha's great-grandson,
James Pritchard,

'remembers Agatha and husband Max
spending cherished time with family

and close friends at Greenway.'

They used to come down here
during the holidays in the summer,

and they would entertain
quite widely.

There's a tennis court,
a putting green on the top,

and probably boating on the river,
and a lot of eating and drinking.

It was a big part of my childhood.

We used to come down here
for weeks at a time in the summer.

I mean, in some ways,
we kind of never left,

because there was so much to do.

'Agatha took Poirot along with her
to Greenway,

'setting some of his
most memorable adventures

'in the grounds of her idyllic home.

'And the book which was most
clearly influenced by it

'was Dead Man's Folly.'

I have been admiring the house.
I thank you.

It was built by my husband's
great-grandfather.

'When the ITV Poirot series
came to make the screen version,

the obvious place to film it
was here.'

To have Agatha Christie's home,
Greenway,

featuring in an episode of Poirot
was the ultimate coming together

of the creator and the creation.

'Not only did Agatha bring
Poirot into her real life,

'but she also found a way of putting
herself directly into his stories

'when she created the character
of crime writer, Ariadne Oliver.'

ARIADNE: 'Come at once. Nasse
House, Devon. Need help. Urgent.

'Ariadne Oliver.'

As far as I can tell...

..She sort of wrote Ariadne
as a sendup of herself.

This is also a wonderful antithesis
to Poirot,

that he's so anal and she's not.

Hello, Poirot.

What is wrong, Madame?
Nothing's wrong.

I just wanted to see
if someone would come.

Ariadne is very messy.

She's always sitting there,
crunching apples

and having feminine intuition.

She's a very funny character.

That toing and froing between them
was just such fun.

She was so rude to him,
which was great.

POIROT WINCES

What's the matter?
SIGHS

It is my feet.
They cause me the pain.

It's those silly
patent leather shoes of yours.

Ludicrous for the country.

It's the yin and the yang together,
and that's why they get on.

That's why they tolerate each other.

Now, why don't you get yourself
a nice pair of those buckskin ones

with the rubber soles?

Madame, cher Madame, I do not know
that I agree with you.

Her sparring with Poirot always
makes me think that actually,

it's Agatha Christie
talking to her main character

and it's a dialogue
between the two of them.

'At the outbreak
of World War Two,

Agatha was forced to give up
Greenway to the US Admiralty.

While husband, Max,
joined the war effort in Africa,

Agatha moved out of the countryside
and into London,

where new fashions and new styles

had transformed
the face of the capital.'

'She lived in this cutting-edge
building in the north of the city,

'known as the Isokon.'

'Cultural historian,
Gus Caseley-Hayford,

'has come to take a look around.'

Agatha grows up
in gorgeous country houses.

Traditional sort of architecture.
But this? This was a departure.

This was her
stepping into another world.

'One of the flats in the Isokon
has been restored

'to the style and layout
that Agatha would have known.'

Just look at this. Isn't it...

..Exquisite?

And for a writer and someone
like Agatha, somewhere like this,

quiet...

..Contemplative, beautiful,

it would be the perfect place
to retreat in the centre of London.

'Britain in the 1930s
had undergone a style revolution,

'and Art Deco was all the rage.'

It's a gorgeous period
of architecture and design.

It's cool, it's sleek.

Beautiful buildings
with elegant silhouettes.

It's a style that absolutely,
we would associate with luxury.

With sophistication.

'In Agatha's stories, Poirot's
London flat, Whitehaven Mansions,

'perfectly embodies
the Art Deco style.'

There's a quality,
there's a style about Art Deco,

that runs through all
of Agatha Christie's adaptations.

And that's one of the things
I really do love about that look,

that style of that design.

It catches that era,
the 20s and 30s.

I just think
it's absolutely stunning.

'Florin Court, an iconic 1930s
building in central London,

'doubled up as Whitehaven Mansions

'when the stories
were brought to television.'

Interestingly, we went to
quite a lot of Art Deco houses,

usually in and around London...

..Where the owners who were
passionate about Art Deco

had them perfectly preserved
in the period.

It was a joy to be in those places.

What Agatha Christie allowed
to flourish in her pieces was style.

We were constantly reminded
of the time and the era

that she was writing about,
because of the visuals, what we saw.

Art Deco was everywhere.

Because of television design and the
beauty of some of those costumes

and set designs, I think he'll
always inhabit that period for us.

I think that speaks to Poirot
and his character.

We naturally feel like he would have
inhabited

a kind of Art Deco environment.

And those clean lines, these
gorgeous shapes. That clarity.

That represented who Hercule Poirot
was and his way of thinking.

There is, with Poirot,
precision that makes him

look almost like an Art Deco
work of art.

What do you make of that?

I do not know what to make of it,
Madame.

Not symmetrical enough for you?

'This new style was not only
confined to the capital.

'In Devon, Agatha's home county,

'Burgh Island Hotel is
a beacon of this new aesthetic.'

It is very, very beautiful island,
and a beautiful Art Deco hotel,

all in its original form.

It's an iconic Devon landmark.
Famously, it's cut off by the tide.

It's actually completely isolated.

And that, I think, just has
a certain mystique about it.

'Agatha Christie was a regular
visitor to Burgh Island

'in the 1930s. Current owner,
Giles Fuchs,

'has restored
the glamour and opulence

'that she would
have been familiar with.'

Burgh Island Hotel is
famous for being Art Deco,

and has now one of the largest
collections

of Art Deco furniture
in the country.

Agatha Christie would have
recognised this room.

She would have walked in and seen
the magnificent Peacock Dome,

which is the centrepiece
of the Palm Court.

'For Agatha, the island was more
than just a luxurious indulgence.

'It was also a writing retreat.'

This is the beach house,

where Agatha Christie wrote
some of her novels.

The island changes, as we know, from
the summer and the Riviera feel,

to the winter and the ominous,
sinister feel that it has.

I imagine her imagination
would run wild

with the views
that she was looking at.

I like to imagine her sitting,
looking out of the window

and just letting it all come to her.
As the tide came in,

the story came in.

I can see her thinking...

..'Page one.'

'It was here that Agatha
wrote Evil Under The Sun.

'A murder mystery set on an island,
cut off from the mainland.

'And when it came to adapting
the book for the ITV series,

'there was no better location.

Burgh Island is one of the most
extraordinary, romantic,

amazing places to set
a detective story.

This is the hotel.
It is on an island.

Oh, don't worry, Poirot,
you won't have to go on a boat.

There's that to carry
you over the causeway.

All aboard, please,
we leave in a minute.

You have these different people
coming from different places

with different motivations
and different secrets,

and they all come together.

Hercule Poirot.

This is my associate,
Captain Hastings. How do you do?

Hercule Poirot,
the famous detective.

Ah, that'll certainly
liven things up.

When I first read the book,
I knew where Poirot was sitting,

looking at the swimmers in the pool,
in the mermaid pool.

And where the coves were, of course,
where the murder took place.

She's very good at maximising
all the features

of whatever setting she has chosen.

It's the fact that there are caves

where people can hide
near the beach.

She just uses all the assets of
the island and beach-side setting.

And you've got built in, this idea
that at certain times of the day,

a lock is closed and the island
becomes almost a prison.

You can't get off it,
because the tide has come up.

That is wonderful
for a murder mystery story.

But surely, no one could think
of murder in such a beautiful place?

No, no, no, Hastings.

It is romantic, yes?

It is peaceful.

The sun shines, the sea,
it is blue.

But you forget, mon ami, there
is evil everywhere under the sun.

Throughout her career,
Agatha Christie had taken the people

and places of her life
and recreated them on the page.

But as the 1950s got underway,
new forms of storytelling arose,

and Agatha would soon see Poirot
go from script to screen.

Agatha Christie was a voracious
reader with a deep love

for the written word.

When her Poirot stories
were first taken from a page

and adapted into movies,
she wasn't too impressed.

But her fans thought differently.

Because Poirot, with his dashing
moustache and crisp suits,

worked like a dream
on the silver screen.

'Over the years, a number
of leading actors have interpreted

'the iconic detective
for the stage and screen.'

It's always nice to see Agatha come
to life in a different way,

in a different director, in a
different script, different actors.

For me, Poirot is iconic. He's
one of the most iconic detectives.

I think when you hear
the name and you see his look,

it's established all over the world.
We recognise him for that.

'Screen depictions of the Belgian
detective go back nearly a century.

'Stephen Fry is going to take a look
through the archives

with film historian, Mark Aldridge.'

I'm looking forward to lots
of different cuts of moustache.

'And some of them took surprising
liberties

'with Agatha's iconic character,

'like this 1934 version
of Lord Edgware Dies.

Regarding that letter
Lady Edgware never received,

there are four solutions
to their problem.

The first, that it was lost in
the post.

The second,
that Lady Edgware was lying

when she said she never received it.

CHUCKLING

Wow. Well, a naked, a bald
upper lip, which is a huge shock.

Clearly, you can imagine
Agatha Christie,

who wasn't always very pleased
with adaptations of her work,

would have found that
rather surprising.

'In 1974 came
the first truly great

cinematic adaptation
of a Poirot story,

with Albert Finney
playing the lead role

in Murder On The Orient Express.'

Oh, I love this scene.

Observe, memorise your mind
with what it says.

A-I-S-Y A-R-M-S.
What does that mean?

WHISPERS: Daisy Armstrong!

It means... We know the true
identity of Mr Ratchett.

It's a masterpiece.
It's a very great film.

It has a huge cast of massive stars,

and Albert Finney is a magnificent
Poirot. His fury, his passion!

It's just wonderful to behold.

'Four years later,

Poirot would be played by
Peter Ustinov in Death On The Nile.'

Do forgive me for butting in,

but I've had a bet with my daughter
here that you're Hercules Porridge,

the famous French sleuth.
Not quite.

I'm Hercule Poirot,
the famous Belgian sleuth.

I told you, Rosalie.

There's only one Monsieur Poirot
in the world. He's unmistakable.

Everybody has got their specific
Poirot that they love.

But Peter Ustinov, to me,
he will always be my one,

cos he sort of like
a grandfather figure.

He's just, like,
this lovely, fat man.

He's kind,
and he's wise and he's knowing.

I'm very sorry to see you here,
Madamoiselle.

Forgive me for saying,

but you are embarking on a hazardous
journey in troubled waters.

To face who knows what
currents of misfortune.

So, for some people
involved in this film,

when they saw Peter Ustinov,

the reaction was that didn't
seem to be Poirot,

to which Ustinov replied,
'Well, it is now.'

LAUGHS
I don't think that, er...

..Agatha Christie really had
a very detailed view of Poirot,

except that he was bald, which
of course, I am, too, and small,

which goes without saying.

People always talk about whether
X version of Poirot is right,

or Y is right, and my answer
to that is that there isn't a right,

because she never drew him.

'Peter Ustinov would prove a popular
Poirot with cinema audiences,

'taking up the role again
for Evil Under The Sun in 1982.'

'Nearly 40 years later, Sir Kenneth
Branagh has played Poirot

'on remakes of Murder On The Orient
Express and Death On The Nile.'

I can only see the world
as it should be.

And when it is not,

the imperfection stands out like
the nose in the middle of a face.

'Agatha's Great-grandson,
James Prichard,

was involved in bringing
this latest adaptation to life.'

I remember when I first talked
to Ken Branagh about playing Poirot,

and he very firmly said,

'I think there are certainly
two things that Poirot has.

He has the moustache
and he has the Belgian accent.'

Poirot hides behind this moustache.

He provokes with this moustache,

he is dismissed
because of this moustache.

And he, as a result of being
dismissed in this way,

puts people off their guard

and he has a chance
to be a better detective.

When we started
talking about putting together

the cast for
Murder On The Orient Express, again,

you are kind of like
the kid in the sweetie shop,

with all these amazing actors
coming in.

You had your Judi Denches,
you obviously had Ken,

and then you had Daisy Ridley.

'And the most recent
Agatha Christie adaptation

is just as thrilling as those
that have gone before it.'

I have investigated many crimes.
But this...

..Has altered the shape of my soul.

'Outside of the cinema,
Poirot's also a familiar face on TV.

'But few people know
that the Belgian detective

'made his TV debut
in an American one-off pilot,

seen here for the first
time in almost 60 years.'

Today, however, Mrs Davenheim called
in Hercule Poirot,

the internationally famous
private investigator.

'Poirot didn't make it
to a full series in America.

'But in Britain, he certainly did,

'when David Suchet became the only
actor to portray Poirot

'in every story written
by Agatha Christie

'in the long-running TV series.

PHONE RINGS

Hercule Poirot.

Hercule Poirot is, for me, much more
than the character

on the written page. Hercule Poirot,
for me, almost is a real person.

The first time I saw him on the set,

I really was quite surprised
at the transformation.

Because, as is well known,
David plays the character,

or maintains the character,
even when the camera isn't turning.

AS POIROT: Make sure this does not
droop a little bit.

Yes.
Yes, that is better.

My Poirot is David Suchet, because
he was so beautiful and elegant,

and fey, and just wonderful.

And I got to do a story
of Agatha Christie's with him,

which was glorious.

Also, your skill. It gave you away.

Such artistry, lavished
upon an object of such hate?

No, I did hate her.

My God, I let off a lot of steam
stabbing that thing,

I can tell you, thinking of her.

When I was adapting the series,
his pomposity, his self value,

his opinion of himself was always
done with tongue in cheek.

And again, David Suchet did it
so brilliantly.

That sense of, 'I am the best
detective in the world.'

The murder that took place here

was the work of the mind
that was brilliant.

But there was one thing that the
killer did not expect...

..The mind of Hercule Poirot.

After it started going out,
it gained a very large audience.

We were well aware of that.

What we weren't aware of was
the longevity of it.

The fact that it's playing
all over the world,

as we speak.

'As new forms of media have arisen,

'Poirot has been made accessible
to each new generation.

'Star of graphic novels,
a computer game...

This case is far from being solved.

'..And even a Japanese animation.

'With so many Poirots across
the decades, across the globe,

the question remains,
what makes Poirot, Poirot?

The physicality.
So, everything is very held in.

The way he walks is very small,
very little steps.

I think Poirot, for me, is not the
moustache. I think it's his size.

Just the weight and the space that
he takes up.

It's the monocle and it's the hair,
it's the rotundness.

As soon as you see an image
of Poirot, you know who that is.

That's a testament to
Agatha Christie's characterisation.

The name, the look, the vice.
He's all there.

Big Poirots, small Poirots,
thin Poirots, fat Poirots.

We've seen them all.
But one thing is certain.

He needs a Belgian accent,
and a finely groomed moustache.

AS POIROT: Not bad.

And I'm working on the Belgian
accent.

By the 1950s, Agatha Christie had
achieved more success

than she could ever have dreamt of.

But as she entered
her twilight years,

it was the simple pleasures of home
she returned to again and again.

Family, friends and food.
A lot of food!

'In her Devon home of Greenway, on
the banks of the River Dart,

Agatha would regularly host long,
indulgent meals.

'It is now owned by the National
Trust, and for James Pritchard,

'returning to the old family home
evokes fond childhood memories.'

Over there, there is this snake
that props open the door,

and I remember that
vividly as a child.

I seem to remember being here,

and we definitely had
five or six courses in here.

To be honest with you, it feels like
I should be sitting down to lunch!

LAUGHS

'James' wish is about to be granted.

'Agatha Christie fan and Michelin
starred chef Marcus Wareing

'wants to learn more
about the author's love of food,

'so he's invited James
and actress, Amanda Abbington,

'to his restaurant
in Knightsbridge.'

I find the food element
quite fascinating.

It seemed like it does play
a massive part in her life.

What sort of food did Agatha like?
What was her favourite?

There was quite a lot of rich food,

and there was certainly quite a lot
of cream involved, Both on scones.

But she also famously drank cream...
LAUGHS

..And she had this enormous mug.

And I'm telling you,
it's nearly a litre.

She used to drink cream from it.
What?! Yeah.

It's got in gold letters
around the side, 'Don't be greedy.'

LAUGHTER
It's pretty good.

That's brilliant.

'One Of the biggest events
at Greenway

'was Agatha's 80th birthday party.

'And Marcus wants to recreate
the main course.'

Well, there is a dish here
that I'm intrigued by,

and that is the lobster a la creme.

This is a classic French dish.

But it is incredibly rich
and luxurious.

An Agatha had the cream, clearly.

'Marcus has devised his own
version of Agatha's birthday dish

with an ocean of cream
for the lobster.'

Dig in. What would Poirot
think of a dish like this?

I wonder. He'd quite like
the symmetry of the split lobster.

I think that
would have been all right.

I think he might have found it
a bit messy.

It reminded me, he always
put the napkin...

LAUGHS

..It was always up there, wasn't it?

Sort of spread out
as far as he could get it.

So any splashes,
they weren't gonna land on him.

If Hercule Poirot is gonna
be at dinner, don't go!

Do not go there.

Chances are, he'd be so irritating
to sit next to anyway, wouldn't he?

Dabbing his mouth,
checking the size of his eggs.

Seeing if the carrots
are the same length.

'Food in Agatha Christie's
stories could be deadly

'as well as delicious.'

Ooh!

Ow.

Madame, you will forgive me,
but I do not think that tonight,

I will require the dinner.

It would be quite scary to actually
sit down and eat a meal

with any of Agatha Christie's
characters,

whether you're the murderer or not.

'Marcus Wareing wants to explore
this darker side

to Agatha's culinary world.'

So, in this particular book,
A Murder Is Announced,

there is a description
of a chocolate cake

called delicious death cake.

It's basically described as, 'Rich,
rich, and probably even more rich.'

'And it probably will kill you.'

'Marcus has created his own
interpretation

'of Agatha's death cake,

'with an appropriately
fatal quantity of chocolate.'

That's gorgeous.
Loosen your belts!

LAUGHTER
It's gonna get messy...

LAUGHTER
..From here on in.

Oh, that's incredible!
That is so good!

That is like the most chocolate
I have ever had, all at once,

at the same time!

Agatha Christie, the Queen of crime
and the Queen of puddings.

'Food, for Agatha Christie, was
a way connecting with family.'

ALL: Cheers.
To Agatha.

'In the final years
of Agatha Christie's life,

'much of her time spent
at her Devon home, Greenway,

'with her husband,
her daughter and grandson.

'She continued to produce Poirot
stories in her final decade.

'But in 1975, she said goodbye to
him when his swansong, Curtain,

'was published.

'It would go on to be the
final episode of the ITV series,

'starring David Suchet.'

Hastings?

It was very moving
to be doing the last one after,

I think it was 25 years.

POIROT BREATHES HEAVILY

Poirot? You're looking pretty awful.

Don't you think
I should call a doctor?

What good would that do?

What will be, will be.

There was a very marked change
in atmosphere on the set

during that one,
particularly towards the end,

where he was doing the scenes
where he's bedridden.

It's devastating for Hastings,
but it's devastating for us,

because we were all saying goodbye

to somebody that we've
known and loved.

My heart bleeds for you.

My poor, lonely Hastings.

Poirot.
Go now, cher ami.

Let me rest.

BREATHES HEAVILY

'In an extraordinary
real-life epilogue,

'Poirot received an obituary
in the New York Times.

'He is the only fictional character

'to have been given
this incredible accolade.'

Mr Poirot achieved fame
as a private investigator

after he retired as a member
of the Belgian police force in 1904.

His career, as chronicled in the
novels of Dame Agatha Christie,

was one of the most
illustrious in fiction.

At the end of his life, he was
arthritic and had a bad heart.

He was in a wheelchair often
and was carried from his bedroom

to the public lounge
at Styles Court,

a Nursing Home in Essex,
wearing a wig and false moustaches

to mask the signs of age
that offended his vanity.

We wanted to believe he was real.

We thought we knew him.
We do know him.

And the joy is, we can
we can go on knowing him forever.

'In 1976, one year after Poirot's
final story was published,

'Agatha Christie passed away.'

I think we should remember
Agatha Christie as a genius.

As a unique figure
in popular culture and literature.

I don't think we'll ever
tire of meeting... Her characters.

And therefore, spending time
with Agatha Christie

will always be a pleasure.

My children will be reading them,
their children will be reading them.

She's going to go on and on.

I don't think
she will ever be surpassed

as the world's greatest novelist.

Agatha Christie achieved a level
of success

that possibly no other writer
has ever known.

And she couldn't have done it
without the most enduring creation,

Hercule Poirot.

For 100 years, through twisting
tales of murder and intrigue,

they've been thrilling readers
and audiences across the globe.

With Agatha Christie,
you never know the ending.

So, where does this story end? Well,
that's the twist. There is no end.

Because I think the mysterious
case of Agatha Christie and Poirot

will remain open for many,
many generations to come.

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