Agatha Christie
6: Killing the golden goose
Agatha killed off Poirot in the 1940s (around 20 years after creating him with her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles) because she was worried she'd die before giving him a suitably dramatic finale.Concerned about the German bombing raids during World War Two, Agatha wrote a book called Curtain – in which Poirot succumbs to a heart condition. She had the book stored in a bank vault and continued to write Poirot novels for years afterwards. It was only in 1975, when she realised she had no more books in her, that she authorised the publication of Curtain. It was a worldwide sensation, and – despite being a fictitious character – the detective was even awarded a front page obituary in the New York Times.
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