Detective Poirot

All fiction is an attempt to create order out of disorder and to make sense of personal experience. In the detective fiction it is the figure of the detective, either professional or amateur, who comes in like an avenging deity to solve the crime, the most dangerous problem that threatens society, and restore the order. The detective must discover who committed the crime, and explain the puzzle or riddle the murderer managed to generate. Generally, the detective starts off with a blank slate, and then receives a series of clues, each of which needs to be carefully deciphered and analyzed until a pattern can be formed. At the end he comes up with a solution as to who the murder is. The Great Hercule Poirot is not an exception and it is especially his solutions of crimes that made him a well-known figure among the readers all over the world.

He features in a great number of stories, so for the purpose of this essay I have decided to choose only two of them, in which a lot of attention is paid not only to Poirot but also to his helpers and the roles they play. It was in one of her most critically acclaimed mystery novels “The

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To these solutions Agatha always devotes the final pages of her books. Both “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” and “Three Act Tragedy” are not exceptions. It is in the last chapters of these novels that Poirot concludes his ideas and reveals the identity of the murderer. He does it in a brilliant way, leaving nothing unexplained. What is also interesting is the fact that even his personality changes a bit in his final speech, he becomes more theatrical and also his way of speaking is different: he begins to use the perfect English. He explains the reason why he does it in “Three Act Tragedy” in the following way:

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