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Marple vs Poirot

HeiseiHolmes 05 Feb 10 at 5:11 p.m. GMT

A Marple and Poirot Deduction Battle!

If Miss Marple and Poirot were to meet in a case , how would they react together? Who would solve the case? Would they get on? What would they think of each other?

It's an interesting topic, isn't it?

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HeiseiHolmes 10 Feb 10 at 3:46 p.m. GMT

I can just imagine Poirot framing Miss M. When she finds a way out of it with undeniable proof then he would have true respect for her...

That's not my serious suggestion. If they met, she'd impress him with an incredible Sherlockian feat of deduction, I'm sure. Then they'd become friends...

wildechilde76 09 Feb 10 at 2:13 p.m. GMT

MissQuin

If Miss M solved the murder, I don't think he'd forgive her!

How true!  I could just imagine him plotting to solve the next murder in a most ingenious way just to prove his "little grey cells" are superior 

I don't think, however, that Poirot would find Marple all that scatty - both of them actually have a similar modus operandi - the only difference being that Christie used rather traditional male/female dichotomies to distinguish between them...Male reasoning vs female intuition (Austen would love these two).  In actual fact, if you look at them objectively, both use a bit of both, as is the case in reality.  I'm not sure if this was deliberate on Christie's part, though I tend to think not.  These sorts of culturally constructed dichotomies were pretty deeply embedded in the psyche of the day.  

At the end of the day I think these two would get on like a house on fire - superior intellects revel in friendly competition.  They're both kind people who would undoubtedly learn to respect the other's skills and abilities.  Both are prim and proper (in the best sense) and share a similar morality.

I'd like to see Marple heckling Poirot as he sums up the case though - ah, to be a fly on the wall  

go_leafs_nation 09 Feb 10 at 1:03 p.m. GMT

They would pass each other at the railway station and never have anything to do with each other ever again. Amen.

Seriously, though, the two can't meet. One would inevitably look like a thick-headed dunce.

AndThenThereWereToon 09 Feb 10 at 7:39 a.m. GMT

Miss Marple would heckle while Poirot was summing up the case.

MissQuin 08 Feb 10 at 3:43 p.m. GMT

That's a really tough question! I think thats why AC didn't write them to meet, as it could go two ways.

1 they could happily chat about crime and all the murderers they have caught. They could also have a good moan about the young people of their generation!

2 on the other hand, Poirot may not approve of Miss M appearing scatty (although she's sharp as a knife underneath). Her lack of order and method! I think Miss Marple's at home in her village and Poirot's a city man. Marple might solve a crime better in her village, whereas Poirot could come into his own if it was a town setting. If Miss M solved the murder, I don't think he'd forgive her!

I love them both equally, so I wont say one is better than the other.