Dame Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot is a confirmed bachelor who would never let an affair of the heart get in the way of a murder investigation.Now its emerged that the Queen of herself intervened to stop Hollywood turning her inscrutable Belgian sleuth into a romantic leading man.In 1936 Dame Agatha, who remains the world’s biggest selling author, refused to let MGM studios add a love story to its planned adaptation of her new novel The A.B.C. Murders, which featured Poirot, and which had been released earlier that year.
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