
Suchet began playing Poirot, with his waxed mustache and elegant walking stick, on the PBS Mystery! series way back in 1989. That's because for the 13th and final season of Agatha Christie's Poirot, the show's producers and distributors have staged a sort of new-media bait and switch. In this case, though, it's not a whodunit. But as the final episodes of television's Poirot provide closure, they are, for the moment, somewhat of a mystery themselves. Hercule made his final appearance in 1975, in the novel Curtain - and this month, nearly a century after he first appeared in print, the mystery series completes its lengthy run as a TV series, still starring David Suchet in the title role. It featured fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who proved the most popular of all her mystery-solving characters. 25 on Acorn TV.Īgatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920.

David Suchet plays Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot.
