Characters & Cast
44 entries in the Hercule Poirot compendium.
Hercule PoirotA Belgian detective who solves crimes through his little grey cells and an obsession with Felicity LemonThe capable secretary who served the Great Detective through many of his cases.Colonel RaceThe intelligence officer who partnered with Poirot on two classic cases, played by Donald Mary DebenhamA composed governess whose past ties her to a family tragedy.RatchettThe wealthy fugitive whose murder halted a luxury train in the snow.Emily InglethorpThe wealthy widow whose murder launched Hercule Poirot's career in England.Inspector BattleThe decent, unflashy Belgian officer who stands as Poirot's quiet shield against the machiChief Inspector JappThe steady, exasperated voice of Scotland Yard trying to make sense of a Belgian's little Arthur HastingsThe steady, skeptical everyman who makes Poirot's genius legible to the rest of us.Chief Inspector GrahamThe badge of order meets the little grey cells, and neither yields entirely.John CavendishA gilded American millionaire whose love for his wife drove him to commit the ultimate actCynthia InglethorpA young wife caught between a controlling husband, a forbidden love, and a murder she did Alice InglethorpA daughter caught in the shadow of a poisoned father and a house full of secrets.Mary CavendishA widow who fakes the voices of the dead to protect the living from a greater silence.John InglethorpA large, loud, and very convenient suspect in the first Poirot case.Colonel ArbuthnotThe red-faced colonel who was everyone's first suspect in Poirot's very first case.Mrs. HubbardThe woman who locked the medicine cabinet and kept every secret in the house.Countess of AndenachA title, a salon, and a silence that speaks louder than any confession.Miss DeuterA quiet neighbor whose small world helps Poirot piece together a larger one.Colonel HardiwellThe colonel who smiled over tea and let a woman die for a purse of guineas.Mrs. DebehnA quiet presence in Poirot's world, remembered for the small details that linger.Roger AckroydThe gentleman whose murder was the most cunningly disguised in all of Poirot's career.Mary EndellThe first woman Poirot ever had to clear, and the first murder that made his name.Captain ProctorThe steady-eyed old sailor whose quiet suspicion lit the fuse on Poirot's very first case.Flora AckroydBeauty, coldness, and buried secrets at the heart of Poirot's very first case.Miles HallowayA man who faked his death to test his wife — and found someone willing to make it real.Mrs. AckroydA young widow in a village of whispers, forever suspected of a crime she did not commit.Mrs. FerrarsThe grieving mother at the center of Styles Court's first and most famous murder.Frank CrawfordA quiet name in Poirot's ledger of small suspects, remembered only for the truth he carrieMrs. LemarchantThe iron-fisted housekeeper whose kitchen held more secrets than the drawing room.Mrs. FraserA quiet young wife whose silent death ignites the first Poirot mystery.Mrs. CaswellThe nervous housekeeper whose gossip and guilt became Poirot's first puzzle to untangle.Oliver BakerAn unremarkable name in a remarkable case, remembered only because Poirot noticed.Mrs. BowersThe shrewish housekeeper whose nosiness made her the first suspect at Styles Court.Mrs. HargreavesA quiet name on a crowded guest list, carrying a secret Poirot notices before anyone else Sir CarlisleA name on an estate gate, a secret behind a closed study door.Mrs. ArmitageA quiet figure in a storm of suspicion, her loyalties are the key no one expected to turn.M. BoucThe captain who called the little gray cells to work when the world outside was buried in M. RenauldA fortune, a fractured family, and every motive a village could dream up.M. DuvalA quiet French presence in Poirot's world of whispered secrets and carefully constructed aMrs. LeathleyThe quiet eyes of the household, keeping the house in order while its secrets fester.Mrs. FerrarBehind the polished doors of Styles St. Mary, a widow's patience curdled into arsenic.Mrs. de la PoerA quiet society lady whose small secret unravels a much larger web of lies.Mr. BrownA quiet figure in the house where Poirot's legendary career first took shape.
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