CRACKING THE CASE
Mar 25, 2020
3 minutes
hen British actor David Suchet was offered the part of Hercule Poirot in 1988, his brother, TV newsreader John, told him not to touch the “buffoon” character “with a barge pole”. Fortunately, Suchet could see the gold in the meticulous, fastidious, mystery-solving Belgian and signed on for Agatha Christie’s Poirot, which ran for 25 years and reached a worldwide audience of 750 million. While the TV series ended in 2013, the legacy lives
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