![]() ![]() The scene, recounted in Mark Aldridge’s “Agatha Christie’s Poirot,” takes place at the beginning of Agatha Christie’s 1940 novel, “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” (published as “The Patriotic Murders” in the United States). Poirot’s words come out sounding more like: “I ah nah a Frahah-I ah-hah a Benyon.” As Christie’s narrator acidly observes, “Few men are heroes to themselves at the moment of visiting their dentist.” The response is as indignant as it is immediate, although, muffled by wads of cotton, M. Morley has made things worse by getting Poirot’s nationality wrong. And now, after poking around in his helpless patient’s mouth (“just a couple of fillings”), the meddling Mr. Morley’s office at 58, Queen Charlotte Street in London. The greatest detective in the world is where he most assuredly doesn’t want to be-supine in the dentist’s chair in Mr. ‘I’m not a Frenchman-I am a Belgian,” protests Hercule Poirot. Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation of ‘Murder on the Orient Express.’ Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images ![]()
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