Poirotian

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1. Of or relating to the fictional detective Hercule Poirot in the works of Agatha Christie.

   It is present, too, in The Confidential Clerk, with its multiple puzzles of parental identity and its twisting series of Poirotian revelations in the final scene […]

   2005, David E. Chinitz, T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, page 146

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   For an outsider, you gain local knowledge slowly, have to sort of come at it indirectly, like a Poirotian detective, accumulating the facts and history of the people who have lived and live in your town.

   2011, Steve Boggs, Letters to Dinah, page 74

   As you can see, each of the above programs is designed for a different user. What kind are you? A Poirotian detective with excellent computer skills and a healthy pocketbook?

   1993, G. G. Vandagriff, Voices in Your Blood, page 157