#the disappearance of mr davenheim

[rain-shoshana]

Jimmy Japp bets Poirot he can’t solve a crime without leaving his flat. Very very confident he will win.

Jimmy Japp loses.

I love this story so much.

[thebeesareback]

Is she in her Poirot era?

Dearest readers (and other users of Tumblr), you may know that I have dedicated some of my insomniac hours to listening to the Sherlock Holmes audiobooks and recounting the bizarre plot points. Yesterday evening, the Spotify algorithm decided to throw something new at me: the adventures of Hercule Poirot. Therefore, I have consumed the short story, "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim" from the collection "Poirot Investigates", published in 1924. Here are my observations:

the dynamic between Poirot and Hastings is pretty similar to that of Holmes and Watson, in that both have a smartass and an everyman. Holmes seems fonder of Watson than Poirot is of Hastings

Holmes is perfectly happy to gallivant around Europe for various cases and visits Tibet at least once. Poirot takes great pride in the fact that he solves a case without leaving his armchair

Poirot talks about how difficult it is to disappear, especially when you're relatively famous and your family puts descriptions of you all over the newspapers. Two years after this story was published, Agatha Christie herself vanished and wasn't found for just under two weeks, despite fans searching and a fair amount of media attention. The coincidence is so notable that I assumed the book was written after Christie vanishes as a meta wink to her readers

Anyway, that's all I really picked up on. Any Poirot fans out there? Apparently the new Kenneth Branagh film is abysmal

[missanthropicprinciple]

one of the funniest lines in all of Poirot: damn you, you....Belgian.

[pflanzidiezimmerpflanze]

Never getting over this scene btw

[sunnybluetown]

✨Magician Poirot✨

[gasolinerainbowpuddles]

working on the next two parts of Whistle in the Dark. The final part is heavily influenced by a certain work of Agatha Christie. Choose below which you think and/or hope it is:

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Love being one of, I can only think, a handful of people who watches, idk, the empire strikes back and goes "Hey, it's [Character from Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013)]" and not the other way around.

Like yeah, maybe that's Admiral Piett to you, but to me it's the titular Mr. Davenheim from The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.

[ericvanderburg]

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

http://dlvr.it/SsFvyk

[hitchell-mope]

JAPP LOST THE WAGER!!!!

[lizardgoats]

Poirot and I were expecting our old friend Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard to tea. We were sitting round the tea-table awaiting his arrival. Poirot had just finished carefully straightening the cups and saucers which our landlady was in the habit of throwing, rather than placing, on the table. He had also breathed heavily on the metal teapot, and polished it with a silk handkerchief. The kettle was on the boil, and a small enamel saucepan beside it contained some thick, sweet chocolate which was more to Poirot’s palate than what he described as “your English poison.”

“The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim” in Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3), by Agatha Christie and performed by David Suchet

[poirott]

Hercule Poirot + "little grey cells"

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT (1989 - 2013)

[rain-shoshana]

This episode is unhinged and a fave. Absolutely planning at least one fic based on it rn.

[hemlock-in-the-cocktails]

      Hastings is on the case.

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim (1990)

Agatha Christie’s Poirot (Series 2, Episode 5)

[gasolinerainbowpuddles]

poll results

welp lmao.

↓ ↓ ↓ brief descriptions of basic plots of these works under the cut (spoilers obvs) for anybody that isn't familiar with them or wants to know↓ ↓ ↓ 

Appointment with Death (2009* whoops adaptation)

piece of shit, abusive woman/mother gets murdered but it’s super slow and she basically roasts to death in the sun while she dies bc she’s paralyzed from being drugged so she’s dying and no one around her is aware of it so she’s panicking and suffering in silence until she finally dies when somebody else comes and stabs her lmao

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

a guy is murdered but the murderer uses a bunch of nifty tricks to throw everyone off on the timeline of the murder and establishes an alibi for himself in doing so

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

this dude is wanted for some shady shit, and he fakes his own disappearance. ultimately he’s disguised himself and is still in the town until he’s found out. basically he was right under everyone’s noses the whole time

Murder on the Orient Express (2010 adaptation)

I hate to spoil this one for you bc it’s such a fucking classic, but this awful man gets murdered on a train. All the other occupants have alibis for the time of the murder. in the end it’s revealed that all twelve of the other passengers had a motive to kill the man, and all of them took turns stabbing him to death.

I truthfully pulled from each of these stories, but I will save the answer for which one served as the highest inspiration when I post the final part of WitD. ;)

[jedi-anakin]

“It’s a wonder Japp didn’t lock me up for breaking and entering.” Agatha Christie’s Poirot | The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

[das-coven]

Hercule Poirot (série télévisée)

La liste des épisodes de la série avec David Suchet dans le rôle de Poirot.

Première saison (1989)

Saison 1 d'Hercule Poirot

La Cuisine mystérieuse de Clapham

Meurtre par procuration (Murder in the Mews)

L'Aventure de Johnnie Waverly (The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly)

Le mort avait les dents blanches (Four and Twenty Blackbirds)

L'Appartement du troisième (Third Floor Flat)

Énigme à Rhodes (Triangle at Rhodes)

Mystère en mer (Problem at Sea)

Vol au château (Incredible Theft)

Le Roi de trèfle (The King of Clubs)

Le Songe (The Dream)

Deuxième saison (1990)

Saison 2 d'Hercule Poirot

La Maison du péril (Peril at End House)

La Femme voilée (The Veiled Lady)

La Mine perdue (The Lost Mine)

Le Mystère des Cornouailles (The Cornish Mystery)

La Disparition de M. Davenheim (The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim)

Double Manœuvre (Double Sin)

L'Aventure de l'appartement bon marché (The Adventure of the Cheap Flat)

L'Enlèvement du Premier ministre (The Kidnapped Prime Minister)

L'Aventure de l'Étoile de l'Ouest (The Adventure of the Western Star)

Troisième saison (1991)

Saison 3 d'Hercule Poirot

La Mystérieuse Affaire de Styles (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

Comment poussent vos fleurs ? (How Does Your Garden Grow?)

Un million de dollars de bons volatilisés (The Million Dollar Bond Robbery)

L'Express de Plymouth (The Plymouth Express)

Le Guêpier (Wasp's Nest)

Tragédie à Marsdon Manor (The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor)

Un indice de trop (The Double Clue)

Le Mystère du bahut espagnol (The Mystery of the Spanish Chest)

Christmas Pudding (The Theft of the Royal Ruby)

Le Bal de la victoire (The Affair at the Victory Ball)

Le Mystère de Hunter's Lodge (The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge)

Quatrième saison (1992)

Saison 4 d'Hercule Poirot

A.B.C. contre Poirot (The ABC Murders)

La Mort dans les nuages (Death in the Clouds)

Un, deux, trois... (One, Two, Buckle My Shoe)

Cinquième saison (1993)

Saison 5 d'Hercule Poirot

La Malédiction du tombeau égyptien (The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb)

L'Affaire de l'invention volée (The Underdog)

L'Iris jaune (The Yellow Iris)

L'Affaire du testament disparu (The Case of the Missing Will)

Un dîner peu ordinaire (The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman)

La Boîte de chocolats (The Chocolate Box)

Le Miroir du mort (Dead Man's Mirror)

Vol de bijoux à l'Hôtel Métropole (The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan)

Sixième saison (1995-1996)

Saison 6 d'Hercule Poirot

Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot (Hercule Poirot's Christmas)

Pension Vanilos (Hickory Dickory Dock)

Le Crime du golf (Murder on the Links)

Témoin muet (Dumb Witness)

Septième saison (2000)

Saison 7 d'Hercule Poirot

Le Meurtre de Roger Ackroyd (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)

Le Couteau sur la nuque (Lord Edgware Dies)

Huitième saison (2001-2002)

Saison 8 d'Hercule Poirot

Les Vacances d'Hercule Poirot (Evil under the Sun)

Meurtre en Mésopotamie (Murder in Mesopotamia)

Neuvième saison (2003-2004)

Saison 9 d'Hercule Poirot

Cinq petits cochons (Five Little Pigs)

Je ne suis pas coupable (Sad Cypress)

Mort sur le Nil (Death on the Nile)

Le Vallon (The Hollow)

Dixième saison (2005-2006)

Saison 10 d'Hercule Poirot

Le Train bleu (The Mystery of the Blue Train)

Cartes sur table (Cards on the Table)

Les Indiscrétions d'Hercule Poirot (After the Funeral)

Le Flux et le Reflux (Taken at the Flood)

Onzième saison (2008-2009)

Saison 11 d'Hercule Poirot

Mme McGinty est morte (Mrs McGinty's Dead)

Le Chat et les Pigeons (Cat Among the Pigeons)

La Troisième Fille (Third Girl)

Rendez-vous avec la mort (Appointment with Death)

Douzième saison (2010-2011)

Saison 12 d'Hercule Poirot

Les Pendules (The Clocks)

Drame en trois actes (Three Act Tragedy)

Le Crime d'Halloween (Hallowe'en Party)

Le Crime de l'Orient-Express (Murder on the Orient Express)

Treizième saison (2012-2013)

Saison 13 d'Hercule Poirot

Une mémoire d'éléphant (Elephants can remember)

Les Quatre (The Big Four)

Poirot joue le jeu (Dead Man's Folly)

Les Travaux d'Hercule (The Labors Of Hercule)

Hercule Poirot quitte la scène (Curtain : Hercule Poirot's Last Case)