Talk:Hercule Poirot in literature

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Chronology of Poirot's cases

I have been doing some work on the chronology of Poirot's on the main Hercule Poirot page and think that the order given here is contentious. What is needed is really a full explanation of how the chronology can be assembled, using the retrospective references within the stories to show why one case must be after another. This is a big job, but would go some way to establishing the basis for what is given here. I have generally given intertextual references, where they exist, in the Trivia section of the pages on individual novels that I have edited. See also my comments on The Labours of Hercules on the other page. At the moment this is a very certain statement of a highly conjectural sequence. --Sordel 10:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The order isn't contentious, it's absolutely flat-out wrong. Dead Man's Folly, without spoiling the plot, is not only clearly set contemporaneously with its publication or shy a couple of years, but one character worked in the ministry "during the [Second World] War". The entries are the result of lazy scholarship of the worst sort. It's hard to know how someone can go to the effort to create such a page and at the same time flood it with mendacities. This is a stark example of why no reputable scholar would ever tolerate the use of wikipedia for educational purposes of any sort.

Copyright

Do we need an unsourced paragraph about what is in or out of copyright, including the claim the first one goes PD in the UK in 2020 (2047 surely)? Timrollpickering (talk) 01:21, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Publication Order

The list of publications in this article does not include her most famous and best-selling book, "Ten Little Niggers", also published in the USA as "And Then There Were None", in 1939. Maybe the American title could be listed first, to tone down the "nigger" reference, which actually was much less offensive in the U.K. at the time. But her most popular book certainly should be included in the list! Wikipedia actually has an article under "And Then There Was None", so I suspect someone who was offended by the use of the word "nigger", as am I, simply deleted the reference in this list. George Sibley 20 July 2018

The real reason it is not here is that it is not a Poirot story. --Khajidha (talk) 18:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]