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soualhi1 02 Mar 09 at 4:23 p.m. GMT

Hey everyone, this is my first topic.

I just realised that most of Christie's (short story) plotlines are based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and that the Poirot-Hastings 'connection' is twin to the Holmes-Watson connection.

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GKCfan 03 Mar 09 at 4:49 a.m. GMT

In her Autobiography, Christie noted that she was drawing upon classic Holmesian patterns in her early work, but she grew tired of what she saw as a "stereotyped" investigative relationship, so she wrote out Hastings, claiming she "was growing rather tired of him."

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HarleyBarley 03 Mar 09 at 3:08 a.m. GMT
I cannot comment on the plots, as I have never read a Holmes mystery to this day, but I must admit that the Holmes/Watson relationship is quite popular. But if I may add, Poirot has not Hastings as a Watson; Hastings is not as involved as the Holmes' room-mate, and Poirot has many more - er - sidekicks, shall we say? So, albeit the similarity, I conclude it is different.
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