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Quotation from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
“Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side.”
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #863)
Hastings's first portrait of Poirot, the Belgian refugee and former police officer he had once met in Belgium.
Citation: "Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side." — Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #863). (id the-mysterious-affair-at-styles-q2)
Portrait: Agatha Christie in Nederland (detectiveschrijfster), bij aankomst op Schiphol me, Bestanddeelnr 916-8898 (cropped), Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0.
