A. Conan Doyle and A. Christie

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Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie

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Arthur conan doyle

Hercule Poirot

Miss Marple

agatha christie

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

English writer who lived between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Arthur Conan Doyle created the most famous detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes, and is considered among the fathers of the detective novel.

Agatha Christie

In 1920 she published The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot a Styles Court), written in 1915, in which the character of the famous detective, Hercule Poirot, appears for the first time, presented as a former Belgian police officer who took refuge in England after the Great War In fact, the writer drew inspiration for this character from a real person, a Belgian refugee who lived in Torquay. The novel was quite successful, also because the public loved detective novels.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He represents the prototype for the modern Detective: Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887. Sherlock Holmes represents the investigator par excellence, criminologist and man of action, equipped with a very high deductive ability with which he searches for physical and material evidence to solve his investigations.

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot: the world-renowned, moustachioed Belgian private detective, unsurpassed in his intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind,respected and admired by police forces and heads of state across the globe.

Miss Marple is a fictional character, an English detective who is featured in a series of more than 15 detective novels by Agatha Christie. Miss Marple (as she is always called in the narration) is an elderly amateur sleuth who has always lived in St. Mary Mead, a snug English village.

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