Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night By Sophie Hannah: Review/Giveaway

by Lorie Lewis Ham


I have been an Agatha Christie fan since my early twenties, and my favorite of her characters is Hercule Poirot. When I first saw that Sophie Hannah was going to be writing new books featuring Poirot, I wasn’t certain how I felt about it. She has now released the fifth book in the series, Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night, and I have enjoyed every one of them!

Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Pignon Scorbion: So Alike, Yet So Different

by Rick Bleiwess



Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes are two of the greatest and most recognizable fictional sleuths. Like them, my fictional sleuth, Pignon Scorbion, is a unique, eccentric, deductive crime-solver in early twentieth-century England. You can read his adventures in my award-winning mystery book Pignon Scorbion & the Barbershop Detectives and in the second in the series, Murder in Haxford.

The Killings At Kingfisher Hill: A New Poirot Mystery By Sophie Hannah: Review/Giveaway/Interview

by Lorie Lewis Ham


I have been an Agatha Christie fan ever since I was a teenager, and her Hercule Poirot stories have always been some of my favorites. I have to admit that I was hesitant to try the new books featuring Poirot written by Sophie Hannah, but I am glad I finally gave in and tried them because they are a lot of fun and wonderfully done.

Agatha Christie and the Orderly Art of Murder

by Sharon Tucker


The most pleasing element in reading Agatha Christie is spending time in her world. It’s an orderly place full of rather complacent, pleasant people suddenly faced with the inexplicable: murders are discovered, friends go missing, or incongruities mushroom in either their village or whatever closed community her detectives happen to be in or called to at the time. Her best loved characters, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, are essentially likable, despite one’s occasional flightiness and a touch of narcissism in the other.

Three British Mysteries for Christmas

by Sharon Tucker


I’m a little envious of a couple of my friends who will be in London this Christmas season. I have been there during early spring and again in summer, but have always dreamed of having a British Christmas on the Isle itself. I consider making a plum pudding every year in December, but just don’t want to face boiling anything in cheesecloth. I’d love to have roast Christmas goose, Christmas punch, and play the Minister’s Cat with a witty group of Brits, but my dream has not materialized thus far.