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Pack Like Poirot
Hercule Poirot, though residing in England, often finds himself on the tail of a murderer whilst travelling. Some of his most notable cases include Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Appointment with Death. To celebrate the publication of Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel in the UK, which was adapted and illustrated by Bob Al-Greene, we take a look inside the detective's suitcase and see what he might take on one of his trips abroad.
‘I take everywhere my little shoe-cleaning outfit. Also, I take a duster.’
There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.
He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling tongs. ‘I use them for the moustaches,’ he said, referring to the latter.
Revivit. - To bring back the natural tone of the hair. Revivit is not a dye. In five shades, Ash, Chestnut, Titian, Brown, Black. "Poirot," I cried. "You have dyed your hair!"
That night, when I came into the sitting-room about ten o’clock, I found Poirot carefully building card houses—and I remembered! It was an old trick of his—soothing his nerves. He smiled at me.
Hastings, my hat. And the brush. So! My galoshes, if it still rains! We must not undo the good work of that tisane.
Hercule Poirot passed through the gate, sighed, glanced down once more at his shining black shoes, adjusted his pale grey Homburg hat, and looked up and down the road.
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