| Detective portrayed by David Suchet |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
29 Apr 2026 |
| Fictional detective |
The Times Concise |
03 Dec 2025 |
| Christie's Belgian sleuth |
Newsday |
26 Nov 2025 |
| "Agatha Christie's ___" |
TV |
16 Nov 2025 |
| Belgian sleuth |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Nov 2025 |
| Literary detective whose final case is in 1975's "Curtain" |
New York Times |
02 Oct 2025 |
| Christie's male detective |
Newsday |
01 Oct 2025 |
| Christie sleuth |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Jul 2025 |
| Fixed it, poor TV sleuth (6) |
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| See 15dn, In 1975, which fictional character's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times? (7,6) |
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| Christie sleuth Hercule ___ (6) |
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| Fictional Belgian detective |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
14 Nov 2024 |
| Agatha Christie created which Belgian detective with a twirly moustache? (6) |
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| Hercule ___, fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie in 1920 |
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| Hercule, Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie (6) |
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| Detective in front when touring port from the south (6) |
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| Whom Christie called "a little creep" |
Newsday |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Christie sleuth |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Christie sleuth Hercule |
LA Times Daily |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Christie sleuth |
Newsday |
13 Jul 2023 |
| Belgian sleuth |
Thomas Joseph |
19 May 2023 |
| Fictional detective |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Mar 2023 |
| "Murder on the Orient Express" detective Hercule |
Universal |
06 Nov 2022 |
| Christie sleuth |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 Aug 2022 |
| "Death on the Nile" sleuth |
Thomas Joseph |
28 May 2022 |
| Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth |
Newsday |
13 Apr 2022 |
| ''. . . Orient Express'' sleuth |
Newsday |
11 Feb 2022 |
| Agatha Christie character who has been played by John Malkovich and David Suchet |
The Guardian Weekend |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Christie sleuth |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Jun 2021 |
| Solver of 33 books |
Newsday |
30 Jan 2021 |
| Christie's Hercule |
Premier Sunday |
27 Dec 2020 |
| Investigator going up first round Olympic site |
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| He solves “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Aug 2020 |
| Christie creation |
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| Christie creation |
LA Times Daily |
26 Oct 2019 |
| 'Murder on the Orient Express' detective |
New York Times |
08 Oct 2019 |
| "Murder on the Orient Express" detective |
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| Sleuth whose name is French for "seller of pears" |
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| Christie creation |
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| "Little grey cells" detective |
LA Times Daily |
04 Nov 2018 |
| 'Little grey cells' detective |
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| Detective finds headless writer in vessel |
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| Christie detective |
Newsday |
29 Apr 2018 |
| Christie's Belgian |
Newsday |
22 Apr 2018 |
| No time for wildly enjoyable event about to be hosted by prize solver |
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| "Little grey cells" detective |
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| Agatha Christie once described him as a 'detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature' |
New York Times |
11 Nov 2017 |
| Belgian detective played by Ustinov, Welles, Finney and others |
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| Belgian detective played by Ustinov, Welles, Finney and others |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2017 |
| 'Death on the Nile' sleuth |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Feb 2017 |
| Christie's detective |
The Times Concise |
10 Jan 2017 |
| Belgian detective played by Ustinov, Welles, Finney and others |
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| Agatha Christie once described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature" |
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| 'Evil Under the Sun' sleuth |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Nov 2016 |
| 'Thirteen at Dinner' detective |
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| Belgian sleuth |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Apr 2016 |
| Surname in a 10-Down mystery |
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| Christie sleuth Hercule |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Feb 2016 |
| Christie detective |
Universal |
24 Nov 2015 |
| 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' sleuth |
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| Noted Orient Express passenger |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jul 2015 |
| City lifted 8 without frequently booked Belgian |
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| "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" sleuth |
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| Christie detective |
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| Noted Orient Express passenger |
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| Head of precinct extremely upset about Irish detective |
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| Head of precinct extremely upset about Irish detective |
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| Legendary bloodhound returned to shred entertaining ball |
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| "Egocentric little creep" of a detective, according to the author who created him |
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| Belgian detective |
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| Christie sleuth |
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| "The Mystery of the Blue Train" solver |
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| Belgian-born sleuth |
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| "To speak the broken English is an enormous asset" speaker |
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| Sleuth on the Orient Express |
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| "To speak the broken English is an enormous asset" speaker |
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| Fictional detective with a waxed mustache |
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| Christie sleuth Hercule |
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| "Evil Under the Sun" detective |
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| "Evil Under the Sun" detective |
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| Christie sleuth Hercule |
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| A Christie sleuth |
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| Six-time role for Ustinov |
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| Subject of a front-page New York Times obituary on August 6, 1975 |
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| "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" detective |
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| "Murder on the Orient Express" detective |
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| "The ABC Murders" sleuth |
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| Role played by both Ustinov and Finney |
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| "Little grey cells" detective |
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| Belgian sleuth |
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| Christie's Belgian detective |
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| Recurring character who dies in the novel "Curtain" |
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| Sleuth from Belgium |
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| Herculean literary character? |
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| Christie's Hercule |
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| Christie's Hercule |
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| Christie sleuth |
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| Christie sleuth |
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| Christie detective |
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| Christie creation |
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| Agatha Christie detective |
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| "Murder on the Orient Express" sleuth |
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| User of "little gray cells" |
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| Christie creation |
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| "Hallowe'en Party" sleuth |
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| Mustachioed detective |
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| Christie's Belgian tec |
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| Belgian fictional sleuth |
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| Christie sleuth |
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| Fictional sleuth |
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| Christie's late steuth |
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| Sleuth Hercule |
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| He solved "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." |
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| Fictional detective. |
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| Agatha Christie's sleuth. |
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| Popular fictional detective. |
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| Agatha Christie's detective. |
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| Fictional sleuth. |
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| Agatha Christie's rogue-hunter. |
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