CRACKING THE CASE
hen British actor David Suchet was offered the part of Hercule Poirot in 1988, his brother, TV newsreader John, told him not to touch the “buffoon” character “with a barge pole”. Fortunately, Suchet could see the gold in the meticulous, fastidious, mystery-solving Belgian and signed on for Agatha Christie’s Poirot, which ran for 25 years and reached a worldwide audience of 750 million. While the TV series ended in 2013, the legacy lives
