Hercule Poirot never sleeps
Hercule Poirot never sleeps (original title Murder in the Mews and Other Stories ) is a short story collection by Agatha Christie . It was first published in the United Kingdom at the Collins Crime Club on March 15, 1937 and in June of the same year in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company under the title Dead Man's Mirror .
The collection was first published in German in 1984 by Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna) in a translation from English by Hella von Brackel and others. The individual stories had all appeared in German beforehand.
Hercule Poirot is identified in all the stories .
The stories
Poirot smells the roast
(Original title Murder in the Mews )
First publication in the UK
Murder in the Mews : December 1936 - Woman's Journal (with a different chapter structure compared to the book).
German first publication of the story
1983, in Hercule Poirot asks to the gallows , Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna)
Film adaptations
Adapted and filmed in season 1 for the English television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet as Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.
The characters Captain Hastings, Miss Lemon and Inspector Japp appear in the film, although they do not appear in the short story.
References to other works
The motifs of the story can already be found in the short story Silence Before the Storm from 1923.
Poirot talks about Sherlock Holmes and "the strange accident of a dog in the night", a reference to the short story Silver Blaze .
The unbelievable theft of the bomber plans
(Original title The Incredible Theft )
First publication in the UK
The Incredible Theft : April 1937 - Daily Express .
German first publication of the story
1983, in Hercule Poirot asks to the gallows , Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna)
Film adaptations
Adapted and filmed in season 1 for the English television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet as Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.
The characters Captain Hastings, Miss Lemon and Inspector Japp appear in the film, although they do not appear in the short story.
References to other works
The story is an almost verbatim revision of the story The 1923 Submarine Plans .
Punctuality can also kill
(Original title Dead Man's Mirror )
First publication in the UK
Dead Man's Mirror : 1937 - ???
German first publication of the story
1977, in Punctuality Can Kill , the only legitimate translation from English by Maria Meinert and Peter Naujack Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna)
Film adaptations
Adapted and filmed in season 5 for the English television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet as Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.
The characters Captain Hastings, Miss Lemon and Inspector Japp appear in the film, although they do not appear in the short story.
References to other works
The story is an expanded version of the short story The Second Gong from 1932, which has not yet been translated into German .
Here, Mr. Satterthwaite makes a brief appearance by talking about the “crow's nest”, a reference to nicotine .
Vacation in Rhodes
(Original title Triangle at Rhodes )
First publication in the UK
Triangle at Rhodes : February 1936 - The Strand Magazine issue 545 (entitled Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes ).
German first publication of the story
1983, in Hercule Poirot asks to the gallows , Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna)
Film adaptations
Adapted and filmed in season 1 for the English television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet as Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.
References to other works
The story is very similar in motifs to Evil Under the Sun : a beautiful woman flirts with a young man and is then killed.
The American version of the book
In America, the collection appeared without the story The Incredible Theft .
The German version of the book
In Germany-speaking countries, the collection was published without the story . Punctuality can kill (original title Dead Man's Mirror ).
The German collection contains the story Ein Indiz zuviel (original title The double Clue ) from the English collection of Poirot's Early Cases . (See Collection of Poirot's First Cases .)
Important issues of the collection
- March 1937, Murder in the Mews and Other Stories , Collins Crime Club (London)
- June 1937, Dead Man's Mirror , Dodd Mead and Company (New York)
- 1984, Hercule Poirot never sleeps , Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna) (German first edition in a slightly modified compilation)
Web links
- Murder in the Mews on the official Agatha Christie website
Individual evidence
- ^ The Observer March 14, 1937 (Page 6)
- ↑ John Cooper and BA Pyke. Detective Fiction - the collector's guide : Second Edition (Pages 82 and 86) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8
- ↑ American Tribute to Agatha Christie
- ^ German first edition in the catalog of the German National Library
- ^ Holdings at the British Library (Newspapers - Colindale). Shelfmark: NPL LON 710.
- ↑ Hercule Poirot asks to the gallows in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Murder in the Mews (1989) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Hercule Poirot asks to the gallows in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ The Incredible Theft (1989) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Punctuality can kill in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Dead Man's Mirror (1993) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Hercule Poirot asks to the gallows in the catalog of the German National Library
- ^ Triangle at Rhodes (1989) in the Internet Movie Database (English)