Kenneth Branaugh’s Huge Poirot ’Stache

Hercule Poirot’s Obituary

From The New York Times, August 6, 1975. Click on the image for an enlargement.

Chris Wormell’s Agatha Christie Covers

Art by London-based illustrator and printmaker Chris Wormell (born 1955).

The Saint in Miami (Avon, 1958)

Artist David K. Stone

A too-short biography is here. The profile below comes from The New Visions, a Science Fiction Book Club anthology published in 1982.

Introducing Agatha Christie to Readers

On February 27, 1920, The (London) Times Weekly Edition began an 18-part serialization of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s first novel.

Styles: The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (HarperCollins, 2016)

In 2016—100 years after Agatha Christie began writing her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (which was finally published in 1920)—HarperCollins released a handsome boxed set containing a new, hardcover edition of that Hercule Poirot whodunit, together with a hardback version of Christie’s final Poirot novel, Curtain (penned in about 1940, but not published until 1975). To provide cover art for both, HarperCollins commissioned Anglo-Scots painter and illustrator Tom Adams, who had created covers for numerous Christie works during the 1960s,’70s, and ’80s. Above is the exterior of that boxed set, while below are Adams’ covers, first, for Styles, and then for Curtain.

Three Act Tragedy (Fontana, circa 1972)

Sad Cypress, by Agatha Christie

Collins Crime Club edition (UK, 1940) first printing:



Dodd, Mead & Company (USA, 1940) first printing:



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