![]() ![]() Hastings fancies himself an amateur sleuth, but he is extremely insecure about his investigatory prowess and desperate for the approval of Hercule Poirot. He ends up at Styles Court after a brief stint in a convalescent home, recovering from injuries he sustained during WWI, which is still ongoing during the events of the novel. ![]() Arthur HastingsĬaptain Arthur Hastings is the narrator of the novel. He is obsessively neat and is always rearranging rooms and fixing people's outfits when they are askew. Poirot is somewhat of a trickster and tends to keep everyone in the dark about his investigations while they are still ongoing. He has had an illustrious career and is known far and wide and trusted by Scotland Yard (the city of London's police), as is evident from Detective-Inspector Japp's reception of him. Poirot is a retired detective and a Belgian refugee in Essex, UK during WWI. ![]()
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