God and the Little Grey Cells

Dan W. Clanton, Jr. examines the presence and use of religion and Bible in Agatha Christie''s Hercule Poirot novels and stories and their later interpretations. Clanton begins by situating Christie in her literary, historical, and religious contexts by discussing “Golden Age” crime fiction and Christianity in England in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. He then explores the ways in which Bible i...