There’s no doubt at all about what the man’s profession has been. "Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I’d much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets."ĭylan Thomas HERCULE POIROT, BARBER-DETECTIVE Now is the time to put your grey matter to work and, like Poirot, follow the beauty trail in Dame Agatha’s works. Each is inspired by one of the fabulous mysteries and is a homage to her dark world, where a cup of tea served in the library evokes English Honey and other remedies, where gentleman detective Hercule Poirot grooms his luxuriant moustache with great skill and obsession, where the Orient Express becomes the stage of a tragedy, with matches and monograms the only clues where travels to Egypt and archaeological digs in the Middle East lead to the unearthing of unpleasant truths, and where roses are more intoxicating than they seem. The result? 66 crime novels, of which more than two billion copies were sold worldwide.įollowing Christie’s trail, L’Officine’s products form a treasure hunt. In 1966, she told the New York Times: "I got my plots in the tub, (…) just sitting there thinking, undisturbed, and lining the rim with apple cores." Hot baths did indeed bring her inspiration, the fruit of her imagination then scribbled in notebooks she scrupulously left in her bathroom and every room of her home, Greenway House, in Devon. The link between Queen of Crime Agatha Christie and the world of beauty seems tenuous at first, but if you look at her beginnings as a novelist, it starts making sense.
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