Captain Hastings likes

a quiet life. He does not like

strangers who send his friend Hercule Poirot

on round-the-world trips to defeat criminal

masterminds with exotic code names. But

their enquiries take a tragic turn when

Hastings finds himself confronted

by Poirot's twin brother, who

announces that Hercule

Poirot is dead!

The Big Four was published

in 1927 and was one of Agatha

Christie's most ambitious books.

Putting Poirot into the centre of an

international spy

thriller, she created a

story ideally suited to a

graphic adaptation, now

finally achieved 80 years

later by Alain Paillou.