Hercule Poirot was famously the first, and to my knowledge only, fictional character to get an obituary in the New York Times. Thing is, I can't find a copy of it. Does anyone know if it's available on the web? Thanks.
2006-12-28 11:09:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hercule Poirot Is Dead: Famed Belgian Detective
Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective who became internationally famous, has died in England. His age was unknown.
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 vainity. In his active days, he was
always impeccably dressed.
The news of his death, given by Dame Agatha, was not unexpected. Word that he was near death reacher here last May.
Dame Agatha reports in "Curtain" that he managed, in one final gesture, to perform on emore act of cerebration that saved an innocent bystander from disaster. "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it," to quote Shakespeare, whom Poirot frequently misquoted.
2006-12-29 03:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hercule Poirot Obituary
2016-10-16 13:22:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cannot find as yet apart from On August 6, 1975, The New York Times published a front-page obituary of Hercule Poirot with a photograph to mark his death.
sorry been into the NYT and cannot get the information, have to go on and good luck in your work.
2006-12-28 11:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by fluxpattern® 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I really liked all of the books involving Poirot. Would be difficult to specifically give one. "Murder on the Orient Express" often pops to mind but I think it's partially because the movie was so well done and popular back in the 70's, and I liked it even as a kid. :) "Evil Under the Sun" also comes to mind. I liked that one because it was set in Egypt. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was really good. As to better fictional detective, I will let the murder and mystery fans answer that one. I haven't read that many books in that genre so I really can't give an opinion :)
2016-04-11 02:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try these sources:
1. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E10F63A5E157493C4A91783D85F418785F9
2. google "watertown ny daily times 1975 aug 8 grayscale 0165"
2013-11-03 19:24:38 · answer #5 · answered by nmmagalh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wikipedia..try there.
2006-12-28 11:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by sugarbaby 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋