It was important to me that he should absolutely remain Agatha Christie’s Poirot in every detail. I wanted to keep intact all of the things his readers (myself included) loved about him. I was very conscious that I didn’t want to change him in any way. After all, he’s undoubtedly the greatest fictional Detective of all time. I was absolutely thrilled, of course, to have the wonderful Hercule Poirot entrusted to me. At which point they asked to meet me, and we took it from there! Author Sophie Hannah has been entrusted with Christie’s great Detective Poirot.Īs far as anybody knew at the time, the Christie family had no interest in commissioning any continuation novels, and so the idea was dismissed, but, as it turned out, the family were at that very moment toying with the possibility, and very soon afterwards they approached HarperCollins with the idea and were told about my agent’s out-of-the-blue suggestion.
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