With a mix of people and exotic ports of call, cruise ships are popular places to base novels in ... Legendary detective Hercule Poirot boards a Nile river steamer, but his cruise is ...

Christie, whose midcentury detective novels featuring the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple made her one of the best-selling fiction writers of all time, included references to Jews in ...

The most famous murder victim in the history of non-Japanese mystery novels must be Roger Ackroyd ... Christie's literary debut as the creator of Hercule Poirot, the iconic sleuth with an enormous ...