<story><title>Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective</title><url>https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/09/26/hercule-poirot-turns-100</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen&amp;#x27;s Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt&amp;#x27;s Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc&amp;#x27;s Lupin and Marcel Allain&amp;#x27;s Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe.&lt;p&gt;If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I&amp;#x27;d love to hear (especially interested in German, Dutch, Belgian, and Luxembourgish authors).&lt;p&gt;Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective</title><url>https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/09/26/hercule-poirot-turns-100</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somberi</author><text>I highly recommend the television series, made by UK&amp;#x27;s ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times.  And the opening music!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>