It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
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The most recent instalment in Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot franchise is not faithful to Agatha Christie’s work, but it is entertaining all the same.
Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
From Emile Brontë’s West York Moors to the mining town where DW Lawrence set Sons and Lovers, there is much literary heritage to be discovered all over the UK.
Christie used her Belgian sleuth to unpick ideas of England and Englishness.
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Visiting Senior Fellow in English and Creative Writing, University of Suffolk
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