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Poirot Catches Some Smaller Fry Quiz


Murder most foul was the crime Poirot commonly had to deal with. But what do you know about the other, smaller offences unearthed while looking out for the murder? Allow me to just steal your time, instead of killing it.

A multiple-choice quiz by heidi66. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
heidi66
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
398,035
Updated
Mar 16 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. Dr Bauerstein wasn't the killer in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles".
But in secret he was involved in another crime. Which one?

Wilhelm von Brincken worked in this profession in WW 1.
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Question 2 of 10
2. Beautiful Flora Ackroyd wasn't only worried about "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". What offence did she herself commit?

Leviticus 19:11 is against it.
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Question 3 of 10
3. The real "Peril at End House" was murder. What criminal craft was committed by the Australian couple named Croft?

Konrad Kujau worked in their profession some decades later.
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Question 4 of 10
4. The so-called Father Lavigny had every reason to be worried about a "Murder in Mesopotamia", because his work at the dig was not free of fault.

What did he do?
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Question 5 of 10
5. The "Dumb Witness" of the minor offence by Charles Arundell was a dog.
What did he watch, while he waited for a ball to be removed from a drawer?

The also fictional A. J. Raffles was much more refined in this.
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Question 6 of 10
6. There was much "Evil Under the Sun" on this beautiful English island. What evil did loud and talkative Horace Blatt add, when he went sailing with his boat?

I suppose he did know about the famous Jack Rattenbury.

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Question 7 of 10
7. In "Dead Man's Folly", Marlene Tucker tried some little blackmailing. Was she arrested for this?


Question 8 of 10
8. In "The Clocks", what crime was committed by the blind Miss Millicent Pebmarsh?

Kim Philby was a real expert in this.
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Question 9 of 10
9. The arty love interest of "Third Girl" Norma - David "the Peacock" Baker - was involved in what kind of crime?

Elmyr de Hory was much better doing this.
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Question 10 of 10
10. Now to the great detective himself. The one and only Hercule Poirot.

As a former policeman he should have delivered a criminal to the law.
But sometimes he showed kindness to the causer of petty crimes.
In which book did he even help to cover up a murder?


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Dr Bauerstein wasn't the killer in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". But in secret he was involved in another crime. Which one? Wilhelm von Brincken worked in this profession in WW 1.

Answer: Espionage

Bauerstein had the strange habit of wandering around at night, and with a name hinting to German ancestors when Britain was at war with Germany this was highly suspicious. He got away with it, though.

Christie's first novel was released in 1920 in the US, 1921 in the UK. The start of a long lasting career.

Wilhelm von Brincken was a famous spy; he even made it into the movies.
2. Beautiful Flora Ackroyd wasn't only worried about "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". What offence did she herself commit? Leviticus 19:11 is against it.

Answer: Theft

"Do not steal"

Poor Flora! A difficult mom, a parsimonious uncle- and therefore she was very short of money. So she yielded to temptation and took some of her uncle's money. Alas, it was the evening uncle Roger was murdered.

"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was released in 1926 and made it to No. 49 of "Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century".
3. The real "Peril at End House" was murder. What criminal craft was committed by the Australian couple named Croft? Konrad Kujau worked in their profession some decades later.

Answer: Forgery

The amicable couple knew how to fake a will. Too bad that the testator - Magdala "Nick" Buckley - survived all the perils. Even worse, she faked her own death and the busy pair was found out.

Released in 1932 the book also dealt with the selling and taking of cocaine. Quite a fashion at this time.

Konrad Kujau forged the Hitler diaries, big news of the year 1983.
4. The so-called Father Lavigny had every reason to be worried about a "Murder in Mesopotamia", because his work at the dig was not free of fault. What did he do?

Answer: Forgery

Father Lavigny was supposed to be a specialist in epigraphy, but he was a fake one. Together with an associate important finds like a gold cup were replaced with well-made copies. He and his partner in crime were caught in Beyrouth.

In 1936 - the year the book was released - Agatha Christie was already married for some years to archaeologist Max Mallowan and could use her newly won knowledge about working on a dig to the advantage of the story.
5. The "Dumb Witness" of the minor offence by Charles Arundell was a dog. What did he watch, while he waited for a ball to be removed from a drawer? The also fictional A. J. Raffles was much more refined in this.

Answer: Theft

Bob the dog wanted Charles to fetch a ball out of a drawer. He wanted to play. Charles found some money in another drawer - and yielded to temptation.

Being a dumb witness, Bob didn't tell what he watched.

American readers might know this 1937 book as "Poirot Loses a Client".

The dog wasn't the murderer, by the way.

A. J. Raffles was invented by E. W. Hornung in the 1890s. Maybe an inspiration for crooked Charles?
6. There was much "Evil Under the Sun" on this beautiful English island. What evil did loud and talkative Horace Blatt add, when he went sailing with his boat? I suppose he did know about the famous Jack Rattenbury.

Answer: Smuggling

Horace had a sailing boat and was quite knowledgeable about coves and caves on the coast. He didn't do the drug smuggling alone, but we are not told the names of his accomplices.

What bad luck for him that beautiful and foolish Arlena was strangled in direct neighbourhood of a cache concealed by him. Jack Rattenbury was a famous Devonshire smuggler and died in 1844.

"Evil Under the Sun" dates from 1941. The sun shone above evil in Devon. In the 1982 movie with Peter Ustinov as Poirot the action had moved to some place in the Adriatic sea.
7. In "Dead Man's Folly", Marlene Tucker tried some little blackmailing. Was she arrested for this?

Answer: No

Most blackmailers in the Agatha Christie oeuvre end up as corpses.
Marlene, a local teenager, made the mistake to demand hush money from the wrong people. And so Hercule Poirot had to find out why she died on a murder hunt at a fete.

"Dead Man's Folly" was released in 1956. In "Agatha Christie's Poirot" it was the last episode ever to be filmed - but not aired as the last. One location where they did the filming in 2013 was Greenway Estate in Devon, which once belonged to Agatha Christie.
8. In "The Clocks", what crime was committed by the blind Miss Millicent Pebmarsh? Kim Philby was a real expert in this.

Answer: Espionage

Too bad for Miss Pebmarsh that the strange occurrence of a murdered man dumped at her place led to her unmasking as an Eastern spy. She used Braille to encode messages. What else?

1963 - the year "The Clocks" was published - was the time of the cold war. Kim Philby was one of the most famous defectors. No wonder, that a bit of spying was introduced in the story.
9. The arty love interest of "Third Girl" Norma - David "the Peacock" Baker - was involved in what kind of crime? Elmyr de Hory was much better doing this.

Answer: Forgery

Painter David Baker was a good-looking young man. Norma Restarick loved David. David loved money. He got involved with some very undesirable people and raised his income with some well-made faked paintings. When he tried to add some blackmailing as a source of income, he came in close contact with a sharp knife. Norma found someone better. A happy end for the "Third Girl".

Released in 1966 Agatha Christie tried to add some swinging London in this mystery story. Groovy.

Forger Elmyr de Hory (1906-1976) is said to have sold over 1,000 of his works to art galleries.
10. Now to the great detective himself. The one and only Hercule Poirot. As a former policeman he should have delivered a criminal to the law. But sometimes he showed kindness to the causer of petty crimes. In which book did he even help to cover up a murder?

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot rarely approved of murder. But the victim on the Orient Express was a hardened criminal, responsible for the death of little Daisy Armstrong and the suffering of all close to her.

So he made an exception.

One of Christie's best known, released in 1934.
She herself loved to travel by train, and the Orient express was a comfortable choice.
Source: Author heidi66

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