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Hercule Poirot is a Belgian fictional detective created by the English writer Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, he is one of the famous characters of the novelist, featured in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.

Poirot has been portrayed in cinema and on TV by different actors, including Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, David Suchet, and Kenneth Branagh. On the radio, in the dramas of BBC Radio 4, his role has been mainly played by John Moffat.