In this trivia game, designed especially for MWA-NY by member Erik Arneson, 20 characters are listed on the Wanted poster above. Ten of those characters appeared in novels and/or short stories by Agatha Christie. Your goal is simple: Identify those ten characters.
You get 1 point for each correct answer.
Good luck!
SPOILER ALERT: The complete list of answers follows. Follow the dots all the way down when you’re ready.
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ANSWERS:
- Inspector Roderick Alleyn: No. (Alleyn is the hero of novels by Ngaio Marsh.)
- Sexton Blake: No. (Blake is a detective created in 1893 and featured in thousands of stories by many different authors.)
- Bundle Brent: YES. (Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent appeared in The Secret of Chimneys and The Seven Dials Mystery.)
- Albert Campion: No. (Campion appeared in novels by Margery Allingham.)
- Sir Henry Clithering: YES. (Clithering appears in several Miss Marple novels.)
- Madame Thérèse Defarge: No. (Defarge is from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.)
- Dulcie Duveen: YES. (Duveen appears in The Murder on the Links.)
- Sir. Thomas Hanks: No. (And as an American citizen, Tom Hanks is only eligible for honorary knighthood and is not eligible to add “Sir” to his name.)
- Captain Arthur J. M. Hastings: YES. (Hastings is a good friend of Hercule Poirot.)
- Inspector Stanley Hopkins: No. (Hopkins occasionally works with Sherlock Holmes.)
- Inspector James Japp: YES. (Japp appears in several Poirot novels.)
- Felicity Lemon: YES. (Lemon is Hercule Poirot’s secretary.)
- Jane Marple: YES. (Of course.)
- Ariadne Oliver: YES. (Oliver is a friend of Hercule Poirot.)
- Hercule Poirot: YES. (Of course.)
- Parker Pyne: YES. (Pyne appears in more than a dozen of Christie’s short stories.)
- Dame Lizabeth Scott: No. (Lizabeth Scott was an American actress who appeared in 1947’s Dead Reckoning with Humphrey Bogart.)
- John Steed: No. (Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed appeared in the British television series The Avengers.)
- Helen Stoner: No. (Stoner was once a client of Sherlock Holmes.)
- Harriet Vane: No. (Vane appeared in novels by Dorothy L. Sayers.)