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If Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple had to...

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...solve the same murder, who would get to the solution first ?
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  • scorpio manscorpio man Posts: 4,960
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    Barnaby :p:D
  • Cissy FairfaxCissy Fairfax Posts: 11,816
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    The Joan Hickson miss Marple
  • georgetheaspiegeorgetheaspie Posts: 1,698
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    Allow me, Monsieur OP, to solve zis dilemma for you using ze seemple form of a picture. Ze detective 'oo would solve zis mystery, of ze most difficult kind, would be...

    http://bloodymurder.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/hercule-poirot.jpg

    As fine a lady as Mademoiselle Marple ees, ze great Belgian detective 'Ercule Poirot 'as 'ad a wealth of 'expérience in ze Eengleesh police force.

    :D:p

    (By the way, David Suchet is the best Poirot ever!:D)
  • talentedmonkeytalentedmonkey Posts: 2,639
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    Depends on which one spots the "invisible clue" and dosnt share it.

    By that I mean when you get the summing up you are always then presented with a few details which no one else saw, including the viewers.
  • EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    georgetheaspie wrote: »
    Allow me, Monsieur OP, to solve zis dilemma for you using ze seemple form of a picture. Ze detective 'oo would solve zis mystery, of ze most difficult kind, would be...

    http://bloodymurder.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/hercule-poirot.jpg

    As fine a lady as Mademoiselle Marple ees, ze great Belgian detective 'Ercule Poirot 'as 'ad a wealth of 'expérience in ze Eengleesh police force.

    :D:p

    (By the way, David Suchet is the best Poirot ever!:D)

    No, zees Poirot would solve ze crime:

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZE250vHIH9c/TOluJFdcG6I/AAAAAAAABj0/LDvzzrNp3t4/s1600/peter-ustinov-as-hercule-poirot-image_toutlecine_com.jpg
  • TerraCanisTerraCanis Posts: 14,099
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    I thought Agatha Christie did this one in the 1970s.

    ETA: Or maybe not. I have a memory of picking up a book for which the back cover blurb proclaimed "Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple together" - but can't find any trace of it on line. Perhaps it was just a collection of short stories featuring each, but separately.
  • billyboy789billyboy789 Posts: 1,373
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    Depends on the murder, if it's a rat-kid on a housing estate with a knife through his heart Hercule and Miss Marple wouldn't give a thruppenny bit.
  • gkecgkec Posts: 788
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    billyboy789 wrote: »
    Depends on the murder, if it's a rat-kid on a housing estate with a knife through his heart Hercule and Miss Marple wouldn't give a thruppenny bit.

    Especially if he had adenoids.
  • InkyPinkyInkyPinky Posts: 4,808
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    Unless the maid or the vicar did it,neither.
  • TouristaTourista Posts: 14,338
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    Miss Marple would tell Poirot the clues she figured out, but ole 'Ercule wouldnt share until the end.

    He loves upstaging everyone else, he cant help it.
  • EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    Actually, I think Columbo would do it better.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 586
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    billyboy789 wrote: »
    Depends on the murder, if it's a rat-kid on a housing estate with a knife through his heart Hercule and Miss Marple wouldn't give a thruppenny bit.

    Think you've given the proverbial nail a hammering there.
  • InkyPinkyInkyPinky Posts: 4,808
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    Eraserhead wrote: »
    Actually, I think Columbo would do it better.

    Columbo does it better than anyone :)
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    Not any more :(

    The others can adapt to new faces and players...but there's never be another Peter Falk.
  • kochspostulateskochspostulates Posts: 3,067
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    They need forensics
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    Wot, a "CSI St. Mary Meade"???
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 958
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    Well Poirot and Miss Marple both generally took 2 hours to solve a murder, where Jessica Fletcher generally only took 1 hour!
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    ....but with more ads!
  • kochspostulateskochspostulates Posts: 3,067
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    phylo_roadking wrote: »
    Wot, a "CSI St. Mary Meade"???

    Yes, it would help them to solve the crimes more easily. They wouldn't have to rely on a confession in a drawing room. They could just do DNA testing or ballistics
  • EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    WLB wrote: »
    Well Poirot and Miss Marple both generally took 2 hours to solve a murder, where Jessica Fletcher generally only took 1 hour!

    And don't ask the Danes or the Swedes, they take weeks!!
  • RaferRafer Posts: 14,231
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    Been done before.

    Marple (marbles) Poirot (Perrier) and others including Sam Spade (Diamond), Played by Colombo's Peter Falk were all invited to dinner and murder in Murder by death. Not the best film ever made but it does answer the question.

    http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/
  • InkyPinkyInkyPinky Posts: 4,808
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    phylo_roadking wrote: »
    Not any more :(

    The others can adapt to new faces and players...but there's never be another Peter Falk.

    Made me sad too :(

    Peter Falk is irreplaceable.
  • phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    The saddest thing of all was he was in a home suffering from Alzheimer's for some time before he died; when the Columbo films came on, he apparently couldn't remember making them or recognise his younger self, and wouldn't believe it was him ... :(
  • Mr TeacakeMr Teacake Posts: 6,593
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    Poirot does tend to dine exuberantly but Marple would be more likely to skip meals or grab a quick snack making more time available to solve the crime.
  • Welsh-ladWelsh-lad Posts: 51,925
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    They'd get stuck and have to call in Jessica Fletcher.

    Then there'd be a right old stink as to who got the accolade of solving it.... culminating in her killing both of them.... with her type-writer.
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