Death does not become them: Arise the new James Bond, Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes

By Linda Morris
Updated October 1 2014 - 10:08am, first published September 19 2014 - 11:45pm
Literary revivals.
Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals. Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals.
Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals. Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals.
Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals. Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals.
Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none
Literary revivals. Illustrations: John Shakespeare Photo: none

Agatha Christie detested her fictional detective Hercule Poirot. In her words, Poirot was "a bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep", and so in the 1940s she bumped the fussy Belgian off, writing Curtain, Poirot's final case.

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