Here, Hannah walks us through how she channeled the goddess of crime fiction. Her fourth Poirot novel will be out next summer. While the critics debated about how well she re-created the great investigator (the Independent praised it as “ immensely satisfying” the Guardian slighted it as “ diluted essence of Poirot”) the author continued to lead the sleuth through a series of mysterious and murderous adventures. Hannah’s resurrected Poirot first delivered one of his famous denouements in 2014, in the ingeniously plotted The Monogram Murders. “I think the only reason I could do it was because I’d read all of her Poirot novels so many times they literally were programmed into my brain,” she explained in a recent phone call. And yet, when her agent informed her that the Christie family was seeking a writer to revive the great man, she realized she already had a plot in mind. “I would no sooner have considered it than I would have considered applying to be the queen of England,” she says. The crime novelist Sophie Hannah had never imagined that any writer would summon him back to the page.
How does a writer bring one of the greatest detectives that crime fiction has ever produced back to life? Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s elegant Belgian detective, he of the exquisitely groomed mustache and constantly whirring little gray cells, died of a heart attack in 1975.
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