
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.
