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Writing

Frasier Balzov

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4. Agatha Christie's Poirot is a Belgian refugee of the Great War.

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Tue Mar 11, 2025, 02:33 AM

Mar 11

When she first conceived of him, the war was still going on and she was a nurse tending to wounded Englishmen shipped home from battle.

Contemporaneous history for her became an unfolding backdrop for a decades-long relationship between author and protagonist.

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