So, we do have a period of time to consider when it comes to trying to understand the age of some of Christie's characters. The link between the last few books is Sleeping Murder (1976) which is set during WW2, specifically September 1940 and May 1941. In Curtain Captain Hastings joins Poirot, he is recently widowed and a father of four grown children, including Judith the youngest.Īlthough published in 1975, Curtain was written some thirty years earlier, so it is not easy to place an exact age on Poirot or the other associated characters. Murders (1936) Returning from South America, Arthur Hastings meets with his old friend, Hercule Poirot, at his new flat in London. In The Big Four (1927) Hastings is given a message that his wife has been kidnapped in Argentina by The Big Four. The exact age of many characters in Agatha Christie works is not mentioned, but it is possible to add 7 years to Hastings age by Murder on the Links – making him 37.
Hastings then acquires a ranch in Argentina where he lives for some time.
In Murder on the Links (1923) he falls in love with Dulcie Duveen – encouraged by Poirot. The first novel Hastings appears in is The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916), where it is possible to estimate that he was born in 1886, and although age is never discussed for this character, it is possible to say he is thirty at this time.
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