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🧶Miss MarpleThe Village Knows
🚆Orient ExpressTwelve Suspects
⚗PoisonHer Weapon of Choice
📖The Canon1920–1976
Christie’s first published novel appeared in 1920 and introduced the world to Hercule Poirot. What was it called?
✗ Not quite! It’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Murder at the Vicarage came a decade later — and gave us Miss Marple.
Poirot bristles every time someone assumes he is French. Which country is the retired police detective actually from?
✗ Not quite! He is Belgian, and he will correct you at length if you suggest otherwise.
Miss Jane Marple solves murders by comparing them to the petty scandals of her own tiny English village. Name it.
✗ Not quite! It’s St. Mary Mead. Styles St. Mary is Poirot’s village, and Kingsmarkham belongs to Ruth Rendell.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) scandalised readers and nearly got Christie thrown out of the Detection Club. What was the twist?
✗ Not quite! The narrator, Dr. Sheppard, is the murderer — critics called it cheating; it’s now considered one of the greatest twists ever written.
In December 1926, Christie herself disappeared for 11 days, triggering a national manhunt. How did it end?
✗ Not quite! Her car was found abandoned, and 11 days later she turned up at a Harrogate hotel under a false name. She never publicly explained why.
Which Christie novel is her best-selling book — and the best-selling crime novel of all time, at over 100 million copies?
✗ Not quite! It’s And Then There Were None, the best-selling mystery novel ever published.
Her play The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952. What distinction does it hold?
✗ Not quite! The Mousetrap is the longest-running stage production in the world — over 70 years and counting.
Christie wrote Poirot’s last case during the Blitz and locked it in a bank vault for 30 years. When Curtain was finally published in 1975, what followed?
✗ Not quite! The New York Times put Poirot’s obituary on its front page — an honour no other fictional character has ever been given.
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Order and method, mon ami — or merely a lucky guess? The grey cells will know the difference.
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September 15, 2026
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