It is of utmost simplicity ...... mon amie

As the Intrepid detective would describe himself...."You are in company of 'echu`e Poihro' the greatest detective that ever lived Mon-Amie" in Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot. Poirot who? omigosh ! you haven't heard of him? well .... then I advice ... you need go no further.

I am sort of a sucker for detective series. I idolize Sherlock Holmes. As a child ahem, which I consider myself to be for eternity I loved to crack small day to day mysteries using his deduction practices and found immense pleasure in using his approach. Then I came across the beauty of Agatha Christie's writings. The only problem with her, I found, was her constant urge to show off her hegemony over idioms and phrases. Perhaps wanted to show off her prowess over the language. sigh! Beats me.

Surely, the biggest attraction towards these novels is her utter simplistic approach to her mysteries. As if, challenging, tantalizing, teasing the reader or the viewer to solve the mystery as it unfolds in front of his eyes. Take any book for that matter, None of the conversations between the characters, Not one note/letter content not even the expressions of the characters involved is hidden from the reader. The person has access to all the information pertaining to the case. Yet the author never fails to evoke a response of utter amazement and exhilaration from the reader. A response evoked from a blend of a feeling of folly, of not out-thinking the writer and from not feeding on the little crumbs of details she provided, during the development of the story. All in all an entertaining and mesmerizing piece of literature.

Finally a word of appreciation for the director of the series on television. His finesse and solicitous, almost scrupulous approach to the matter in the book has made this series one of the longest running and most fascinating of them all, Kudos to all the Directors[As many as 10 of them], David Suchet[the person playing the Character of Poirot],Hugh Frazier and Philip Jackson [Captain Hastings and Chief Inspector James Japp] . As the Belgian Detective would say .... Le Magnifique!