Detective fiction is dominated by two detectives who tower over the others in both ability and fame: Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. ... Thus, a lot of people say that Agatha Christie based her creation Hercule Poirot entirely on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. They claim that all she has done is to change the outer skin and appearance of Sherlock Holmes, and renamed him Hercule Poirot. However, although Christie may have been inspired by Sherlock Holmes, in no way has she only cosmetically changed Holmes when inventing Poirot. ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, wrote the first Sherlock Holmes book, ‘A Study in Scarlet’, in 1887. ... He was knighted in 1902, and some said that this was at least partly because of his books and, specifically, Sherlock Holmes. Christie, on the other hand, was born 3 years after Sherlock Holmes came into existence. She introduced Hercule Poirot in ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ in 1920, only 10 years before Doyle’s death. ... Although this may have given her the idea of becoming a mystery writer, it does not mean that she emulated Sherlock Holmes when writing ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’.
Admittedly, there are certain very profound similarities between Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes. ... In Holmes’ case, all but three of his full-length stories are narrated in the first person by Dr. ... He also helps to lend a certain drama when Holmes unveils the solution of the crime. Holmes himself states about Watson: “A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.” (Doyle 486)
In the same way, Poirot also has a helpmate, Captain Hastings, who narrates a majority of the Poirot stories. He is also the strong-arm man who helps protect Poirot from all the people who wish him harm. ... Both Christie and Doyle have inserted a law enforcer into their stories. In Holmes’ case this is a Scotland Yard inspector named Inspector Lestrade, whereas the Scotland Yard representative in Poirot’s stories is Inspector Japp. ...
Both Holmes and Poirot seem to make astonishing deductions based on the slightest facts that have escaped the reader’s notice. ... In ‘The ‘Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’, Sherlock Holmes deduces from Watson’s appearance that he has had a Turkish bath and on the way home shared the cab with some other person. ...
Of course, Holmes and Poirot are well-known to all the people of their time.
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