The more time I spent with Poirot, the more boring compulsions and apprentice detective work our pandemic routines became. It is probably coincidental that Poirot first appeared in 1920, at the end of the great influenza pandemic; Christie wrote “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” four years ago while nursing soldiers in Devon. But Poirot is …

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