![]() ![]() In a 1956 interview with John Bull magazine, Agatha Christie dismissed the idea that any of her characters are truly derived from real life, although she did admit that Mrs Oliver has "a strong dash" of herself. She is, in many ways, a vehicle for Agatha Christie’s own voice, particularly in relation to writing and the public. She finally appears on her own in The Pale Horse. Her first appearance in a full length novel, with Poirot, is in Cards on the Table. ![]() ![]() Ariadne Oliver and Hercule PoirotĪriadne Oliver appears in six Poirot novels, assisting him (often in Hastings' stead) by providing her own unique perspective on each of the crimes they encounter. Sven Hjerson loves crudités, cold winter baths and solving murder mysteries. "Of course he’s idiotic," Mrs Oliver says, "but people like him", a sentiment Christie often applied to her own Hercule Poirot. Mrs Oliver also has a pedantic detective, a Finnish man by the name of Sven Hjerson. She is feisty, quick to jump to conclusions (sometimes right, sometimes wrong), and strongly believes that Scotland Yard would be better run by a woman. Mrs Oliver is a middle-aged woman and successful detective novelist, described as "handsome in a rather untidy fashion, with fine eyes, substantial shoulders, and a large quantity of rebellious grey hair with which she was continuously experimenting". ![]()
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