Write Down What You Saw... Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mark Easterbrook

Mark Easterbrook witnesses two girls fighting in a coffee bar in Chelsea, noticing that one is pulling out the other's hair by the handful. A few days later, the girl whose hair was pulled out is dead. When Mark stumbles across the girl's name again, this time in connection with a crime, he wants to know more, and so it begins.

"The Pale Horse" is a standalone novel which seems to deal with the supernatural, but like some other Christie novels, it has a very mundane and down-to-earth solution. It is one of my favorite Christie books and I must have read it at least ten times already.

Answer: Jerry Burton

Jerry and Joanna try their very best to fit in at Lymstock and to get along well with their neighbors. But when they find out about a certain poison-pen problem that has been troubling the village, and it all culminates in the death of a woman, Jerry can no longer hide his interest. Being an invalid on the mend, he doesn't really have anything else to do, anyway.

"The Moving Finger" is a Miss Marple novel, but Miss Marple does not appear until at least two thirds of the way through the novel. Nevertheless, it is an enjoying read with engaging characters and an intricate solution in the best of Christie traditions.

Answer: Mike Rogers

"Endless Night", a standalone novel, is not so much a detective story as it is a psychological study with a lot of atmosphere and some very memorable characters, especially Mike Rogers and Rudolf Santonix.

Answer: Amy Leatheran

For an inexperienced writer, Nurse Leatheran sure did a splendid job! "Murder in Mesopotamia" is a less glamorous "Death on the Nile", but hardly any less ingenious. Like its more famous cousin, it has an exotic setting, an interesting victim, a closely confined group of suspects, and a solution nobody expected.

Answer: Colin Lamb

Believed by Christie experts to be the son of Superintendent Battle, Colin Lamb is investigating a person of interest when he has a strange meeting involving a screaming girl, a number of clocks, a blind lady, and a dead man in the living room. The plot of "The Clocks" is quite convoluted, but in a meta-level sort of way, that very fact is actually part of the solution.

Agatha Christie was tired of Poirot by the time of writing "The Clocks", which is why she confined him to his flat for the entire duration of the story and preferred to focus heavily on Colin's side of things.

Answer: Murder at the Vicarage

"Murder at the Vicarage" was the first full-length Miss Marple novel, and it catapulted the sweet but astute old lady to instant popularity. Eleven Marple novels would follow, with the Reverend Clement and his wife Griselda making appearances in some of them.

Answer: doctor

Doctor Sheppard is Watson to Poirot's Sherlock Holmes in this famous novel, which revolutionized the genre due to its ingenious twist ending. "Roger Ackroyd" marked the first of many attempts of Poirot's to retire, although usually these attempts did not involve moving into the country and growing vegetable marrows.

Answer: The Man in the Brown Suit

"The Man in the Brown Suit" is a typical early adventure novel featuring a bold and daring heroine, a love story, sinister business, and the occasional dead body. The narrative is quite clever, and the two different perspectives from the two narrators save the book from any possible mediocrity.

Answer: Charles Hayward

Another reason for Charles Hayward's involvement in the case is, of course, the fact that his fiancée, the dead man's granddaughter, believes they cannot get married until the whole affair is cleared up.

Agatha Christie named "Crooked House" her favorite book, together with "Ordeal of Innocence".

Answer: Arthur Hastings

Arthur Hastings was Poirot's loyal friend for his entire career as a private detective. Even though Agatha Christie grew tired of him and had him shipped off to Argentina after the second novel, Hastings would come back occasionally and "go hunting" with his old friend. He was there when Poirot faked his death in "The Big Four" and also when he died for real in "Curtain".

Hastings is described as a gentleman with a big heart and a weakness for women with chestnut hair, but also as a courageous and faithful friend, even if his intellectual abilities are not quite what he would like them to be, to put it mildly. He married Dulcie Duveen, whom he met during the events described in "Murder on the Links".