![]() ![]() Both narrate in the first person, both are slow to see the significance of clues, and both therefore stand as a form of surrogate for the reader. ![]() Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's sidekick, Doctor Watson, to whom he has a marked resemblance. Moreover, when Christie expanded The Submarine Plans (1923) as The Incredible Theft (1937) she removed Hastings. He is not a character in either of the two best-known Poirot novels - Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express - and of the fifteen Poirot novels published between 19 he appears in fewer than half. In Christie's original writings, however, Hastings is far less prominent. ![]() Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, partly as a result of the fact that many of the early TV episodes " Agatha Christie's Poirot" were adaptations of the short stories, in most of which he appeared, or were stories into which he had been introduced in the course of adaptation (e.g. ![]()
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