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Sherlock Holmes vs. Hercule Poirot
The most famous fictional detectives in the world: Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) vs. Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
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#1Anonymous [895]
2-7-2009 | 2:31 pmI think agatha stories are more sufisticated and have more wonderful puzzles and mystries
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#2Kurian Joseph [2]
3-14-2009 | 10:15 amIf u read works of Agatha Christie’s after Doyle’s you wont find anything new or interesting.. Its just copy cat of Doyle’s work.
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#3Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:29 pmPoirot is the only fictional character that has been given an obituary in The New York Times, August 6, 1975 “Is Dead Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the detective, dies” ( “Hercule Poirot is dead; famed Belgian detective “Hercule Poir
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#4Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:33 pmPOIRE BECAUSE IT IS BETTER FIND MORE COMPLICATED CASES AND HOLMES IS A DARK ABURRIDO
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#5Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:38 pmaghata tube with Poirot but there is that I want to holmes it is called THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY by hercule, as the writer who most sold book in the world only surpassed by any genre shekepiare also is the most translated writer planet and that is most sold in France osea that Poirot is successful and the best aghata number say it all There’s no comparison
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#6Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:42 pmA QUI LES DEJO SOMETHING TO SAY IS BETTER THAN Poirot HOLMES
Christie managed to sell two billion copies of their works, which were translated into 103 languages. Only the Bible and the works of English playwright William Shakespeare managed to sell more copies hercule is a success story0 3 -
#7Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:43 pmhercule is better because it was the only detective in the exit of the most famous World and the New York Times is read the more the world is boring holmes
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#8Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:45 pmOh Hercules Poirot is simply great …. There is no other word that fits you best. Is beyond the typical snooping detective who traces for clues, Poirot is something other than the common, much more real, with a strong personality, the better attainment of Agatha Christie.
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#9Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:47 pmthat was invented by the best minds writing when I read your book I think you must have a natural intelligence to write a book as it is for my writer’s largest planet THE GREAT MR. CRISTI AGHATA THE BEST OF ALL TIME AS THERE ARE NO DOUBTS
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#10Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:52 pmPoirot is ready intelligent analyst is better
and his story is more exciting when I read your
If I am thrilled because their cases are a broken head in the end gun and that’s what I like about it is the best no doubt0 2 -
#11Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:53 pmthat when reading a book holmes you bored and leave it in exchange for half of what hecule want to go on and on and ends when the book you want to read Poirot undoubtedly have their own
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#12Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:54 pmHolmes said that if someone is better because they have never read a book hercules is undoubtedly the number 1
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#13Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:55 pmwhen it can not be compared Poirot mystery is the great success of aghata the most translated writer of the planet
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#14Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 9:59 pmhercule plays with the mind of the reader and is always a guessing who the murderer is like a broken chain that finally achieves Poirot join but I love holmes is heavy and dull muyyyy
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#15Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:00 pmI have not read much of Holmes but I am told is boring but I hercule and almost all his books are so exciting to read his books is as if love is the best feeling
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#16Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:01 pmThat can not be discussed Poirot is more read in the world aghata is the best-selling writer in any genre shekepiare only surpassed by the Bible and to sell more than 2000 million numbers say it all is the best hercule
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#17Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:09 pmbuenoo is best left in sospresa, to know who is guilty, I never esperimentado feeling sospresa and impotecia with the stories of Agatha Cristie, let me know who the ice cream is victimaa which no one ever suspected Poirot is more! human, although I have read some sherlock me very light but has a fabulous duo with watson Poirot himself and does all the more curious fads that are used to solve the case
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#18Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:10 pmI’m staying with Poirot, analytical knowledge of the motives and arguments, or, as would the Great Mrs Christie, of human nature …
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#19Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:14 pmholmes say what is better is wrong is that they do not realize that aghata is famous thanks to this man and his book have been sold in over 103 languages is the most translated writer in the world and his book are the most sold in any execion genre with the Bible and shekepiare to sell more than one billion copies in England and another one billion in over 103 languages and all thanks to Hercules Poirot holmes is insinificante compared to human intelligence Hercules Poirot and if I do not believe seek iletty aghata biography of the best ever number 1
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#20Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:16 pmPoirot is a detective investigates all analysts do a project of analyzing and then discovers the murderer and holmes is boring to the problem of esplicarle already knows who is to blame and that is not rather be a detective holmes was a witch was Demaci ireal Poirot so I think it is much better
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#21Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:19 pmPoirot discovers where more complicated and dark and not be carried away by apariecia if you use your gray cells to discover the culprit, but what fascinated me most were the methods used to discover the murderer hercule is undoubtedly the best
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#22Anonymous [895]
8-1-2009 | 10:21 pmPoirot is that analysts and always goes by-step question is where do ocrrio analyze the case and always finds the final curpable
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#23Anonymous [895]
8-2-2009 | 7:26 amit’s the best detective because thinks right and can solve many cases with a few clues!She is a man who respect humans and try to behave right without annoying anyone. it’s lovely because consider all the people are the sme without difference!Never accuse of someone without prooves and seems different from the others because see the really face and the real feels!!!!!!!!he is wonderfull
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#24Anonymous [895]
10-9-2009 | 1:17 amis hastings used by agatha christie
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#25Anonymous [895]
1-8-2010 | 2:15 pmI like the way Poirot solves mysteries, by using psychological issues of human being.
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#26Anonymous [895]
1-12-2010 | 10:28 pmThe cases solved by Poirot are more intricate. Given the formula is similar but the more specified details are much better
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#27Anonymous [895]
5-18-2010 | 4:29 pmBecause Poirot’s cases usually require creative thinking, while Holmes’ cases…meh. Doyle apparently hated Holmes so much that he did almost no research when writing the stories. Also: Holmes was a Gary Stu (with the inconsequential habit of doing drugs, and that’s it). Poirot was far more human. End of story.
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#28Anonymous [895]
8-20-2010 | 12:06 pmhe’s more adorable.
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#29Anonymous [895]
9-2-2010 | 11:48 pmHe’s much more surprising then holmes
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11-14-2008 | 12:17 am
Holmes always has been the best one.
11-20-2008 | 8:10 am
Holmes doesn’t really need a reason to be the best but for one, he was the influence for Poirot.
1-12-2009 | 7:00 pm
A class act
2-17-2009 | 3:33 am
Sherlock is a much more complicated character than Poirot especially with his drug habits. Also having his “assistant” as a doctor is rather interesting.
Plus Poirot’s “magnificent mustaches” gets old so quickly.
Granted, not many people saw the ending for “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” coming I but generally find most of Agatha Christie’s mysteries (The ones with Hercule Poirot maybe not quite so much as the rest though) too boring and predictable.
Summary: I’m on Sherlock’s side 100%,
3-14-2009 | 10:12 am
I think Agatha Christie’s Poirot is copied cat of sherlock holmes.
Poirot have a companion like Watson who is not only dumb but also narrate the story. Police is dumb as ever from the time of Doyle to Agatha Christie. Both have a landlady. Poirot get involved in mystery circumstances similar to Sherlock Holmes. Only difference is Poirot is immensely talented he knows the murderer before the murder itself. Not much clue is needed. The clues is only to mislead the audience.
3-30-2009 | 8:05 pm
I like his metal capacity of ovservation and deduction
5-16-2009 | 12:35 pm
Well, that Holmes was, is and will remain the BEST is beyond doubt, but Poirot also is very interesting (with a touch on the funnier side). Both have their own methods and lets enjoy both of them rather than comparing and complaining. What say?
8-16-2009 | 8:22 pm
Sherlock Holmes is a more intreasting character than Poirot, and also the first sucessfull fictional detective. Nearly everyone knows Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson, while not many knows Poirot and Hastings. Hastings aren’t much mentioned as Dr Watson in the books and he isn’t very intresting compare to Watson either.
Agatha Christies Poirot is also a french version of Sherlock Holmes, and is more irritating by his french snobbish apperance. I do like to read an watch Poirot now and then, but I don’t like him. I realy don’t.
it seems that every fictional detective are different version of Holmes. Holmes is the original, and the best. Jeremy Brett is the best as Holmes. No One can be compared to him.
9-28-2009 | 11:18 am
sherlock holmes has logic and intelligence that impresses all
the complications in his charecter just make the whole thing better
its sad that it came to an end
10-27-2009 | 6:34 am
Sherlock Holmes stories draw you in more, and he continues to excite to this day
1-13-2010 | 12:13 am
Because he’s the originator and more well rounded as a detective (forensics, footwork, evidence) and the crimes are grittier and less self-consciously `mysterious’.
1-16-2010 | 8:18 am
sherlock holmes is the best poirot sucks.Only reason why poirot is popular is that americans always like their own version of everything to be better than england’s for example saying that metallica is better than iron maiden poirot is better then sherlock holmes, i am sure if arthur conan doyle was american everyone would have sided with sherlock holmes.poirot’s books are ridiculous for example the one where the murderers turn out to be all the passengers of orient express or the one where the murderer turns out to be a little girl, its obvious sherlock holmes is the best its obvious
1-18-2010 | 1:05 am
See’s things and deduces things Poirot would simply miss.
1-26-2010 | 1:22 am
Holmes,he deduces better from little details,i thing his method is right for solving mysteries or just show brilliance,Poirot doesnt reveal how he figured it out.
1-26-2010 | 1:24 am
Columbo is the best.
7-21-2010 | 1:06 am
Sherlock is a very interesting character! He knows what he does and he investigates with his own eyes… I think Poirot very “unreal” because he investigates only with words! If there is something that Inspector Japp doesn’t see, but it’s essential to the case, Poirot would be in bad hands!
7-22-2010 | 11:11 am
he was best is best will be best because he has true character of a detective no emotions just intelligence will always be the winner if a competition is held b/w poirot and holmes, holmes will solve the case in seconnd while poirot(sucker) will not be able to even complete this case
8-10-2010 | 12:48 pm
if you think Holmes is a boring character, please watch jeremy brett in action!
8-10-2010 | 12:56 pm
if you think holmes is boring and has no personality, watch jeremy brett in action!
8-13-2010 | 7:15 am
The Sherlock Holmes stories are original. In fact, they are THE original. Poirot, however entertaining, is a series of simple whodunits that are solved by a slightly clever egoist. None have ever surprised or baffled me. I’m sorry, Poirot, but commonplace deductive skills and a mustache do not a great detective make. There is a reason Sherlock Holmes’ methods are still studied today and his stories have never been out of print. He holds the record for being the most portrayed character in television and film with 75 actors and over 211 films. He is, simply the first and the best. Poirot could never stand a chance against him for the simple reason that he had more singular and fascinating creator. To me, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will always be the greater man behind the greatest man who never lived. But I digress. Some have accused Holmes’ stories of being to stuffy and boring; perhaps he is to those who can’t appreciate the subtlety of Sir Doyle’s humor, but they are quite charming and humorous to those who have read and understood them. Dear, I’ve written a lot! And sounded like a right ladida. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate M. Poirot, I just don’t believe he was better than Sherlock Holmes. He could have learned a lesson or two from him, (namely in humility) had he had the right kind of mind. I have a certain affection for the little Belgian, but Sherlock Holmes will forever be etched into my brain as well as in my heart. Funny how someone so devoid of emotion can invoke it so deeply in others.
8-14-2010 | 6:58 am
The Poirot stories are very general, cookie-cutter type stories. They are all cliche whodunits. They attempt to make up for unoriginality with intricacy. They are over-elaborate to make up for a lack of plot where Sherlock Holmes’ stories are very original and just complex enough to be believable and not so overly-entangled as to be an obvious fabrication. They are simply not believable, whereas Sherlock Holmes’ stories are perfectly explained and believable. So much so that people are surprised to hear that he wasn’t a real person. Everyone knows that Poirot was fictitious, but some think Holmes was a real person. He even gets letters!