Arthur Hastings - The Hastings Novels

The Hastings Novels

Hastings narrates the majority of the short stories featuring Poirot, but appears in only eight of the novels, all of which were written before 1940 (except Curtain: Poirot's Last Case). These are as follows:

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Murder on the Links
  • The Big Four
  • Peril at End House
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • Lord Edgware Dies (published in the U.S. as Thirteen at Dinner)
  • Dumb Witness
  • Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Hastings is also present in both the play and novelisation of Christie's Black Coffee alongside Poirot.

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