Poirot does die. He was smothered with a curtain! ;)



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

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Well Sherlock died, too, but in the end he lives forever.

Well Sherlock died, too, but in the end he lives forever.

Sorry about that. Bloody thing seemed stalled. My fault, really.

Don't worry about it. Sometimes there is an echo in here.

Wasn't the ending re-written so that he lived, though?



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The inimical is often more instructive than the benign.
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re-written by Conan-Doyle? Oh yes! He died in "The Final Solution" but there was such an outcry, so he revived him in a new story.



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

Indeed so. However, I was reffering to when Sherlock discovers how to make the elixir of life.

When did he make an elixer of life??



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

Ahem, it's MISS Marple, BTW.

The mention of Lord Peter gave me a horrible vision of Bertie Wooster as an agent. Jeeves, however, would be just the thing.

Greydragn

MISS Marple would make a great agent! Doddery old woman... Who would suspect?!



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

Oh I love the thought of Bertie Wooster as an agent, though I'd prefer Lord Emsworth - but I suppose if they've got to be effective Gally would be best.

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Maybe that's a role being played by Granny Next?

splat21 _
Or maybe the 'Empress of Blandings' is the Jurisfiction agent resident within that series? ;-)



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Yes, that might explain why she is so old, as Miss Marple was old in the books themselves, then after Agatha dies, she perhaps stayed the same age, but her years lengthened.



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

How about those from non-fiction?

Yakub Beg, Lola Montez

Or Odo Hirsh's Barlett...



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

From non fiction you would be able to get people like Rick Stein, Anthony Worrel-Thompson, and probably (just to show the Americans out there, I am not completely culturally ignorant) Martha Stewart. (I even know who she is thanks to AAC!) Surely this is not such a good idea then...?

(Edited due to the fact that this post was completely irrelevent as I didn't finish it then posted it anyway, although I'm sure you could argue it is still irrelevent now!)



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

I would love to see Thursday enter one of William Faulkner's novels, especially As I Lay Dying. Think of the fun Jasper could have with the Bundrens!

Rhonda

...On top of every other benefit, literary detectives would be the most reliable agents available. After all, in every book Miss Marple is always totally above suspicion, no one ever considers for a moment that she could even be a suspect.

However, if I were the police, I'd find the links between multiple homicides and the presence of wrinkly old ladies who smile mysteriously too compelling to ignore...

...If she's clever enough to figure out the culprit when no one else can, she's certainly smart enough to cover up her killing sprees by pointing the finger at someone else.

"The famous investigator Miss Marple says the butler did it, so it must be true! The blood-stained knife she's holding? Oh, I'm sure it's just evidence she's waiting to hand over to the police..."