I loved the Poirot books way back when I was in high school, so coming across the character again was kind of like running into an old friend I hadn’t seen in decades. Partly, of course, this love was born out of a sense of nostalgia.
That’s not to say I didn’t wholly enjoy Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders. Whereas Sherlock Holmes has been given all kinds of makeovers and updates, Poirot as a character has remained resolutely stuck in the past. The first Hercule Poirot book came out nearly a century ago, and even though Christie continued writing into the 1970s, the Poirot books always seemed like a relic from that interwar period, full of men with stiff upper lips, upstairs/downstairs dramas, veterans of the Great War, and slightly funny foreigners (the main character included). There’s something decidedly anachronistic about playing an Agatha Christie game in 2016.
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