#captain hastings

[future-crab]

After studying three of the greats — Holmes, Poirot, Columbo — I have determined that in order to be a popular fictional detective you MUST be autistic you MUST be a nosy bitch and you MUST have a boybestfriend to bounce your theories off of.

‘But op, what about Columbo? Columbo doesn’t have a boybestfriend!’ You fools. His boybestfriend is the murderer.

[nocontextpoirot]

[not-equippedforthis]

the gang's all here!!!

[y689aa]

Make some Poirot & Tintin crossover

[perfides-subjekt]

As they walked along the sound of squibs was still heard periodically. An occasional shower of golden rain illuminated the sky. “Good night for a murder,” remarked Japp with professional interest. “Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.” “It has always seemed odd to me that more criminals do not take advantage of the fact,” said Hercule Poirot. “Do you know, Poirot, I almost wish sometimes that you would commit a murder.” “Mon cher!” “Yes, I’d like to see just how you’d set about it.” “My dear Japp, if I committed a murder you would not have the least chance of seeing — how I set about it! You would not even be aware, probably, that a murder had been committed.”

“Murder in the Mews” was first published in the USA in Redbook Magazine, September/October 1936, then as “Mystery of the Dressing Case” in Woman’s Journal, December 1936.

Air date: 15 January 1989.

[evepolastrisgf]

a hasting edit for my hastings girliess🫶🏼🫶🏼

IM IN SHAMBLES OVER THIS MAN IT AINT FUNNY ANYMORE GOOD LORD

[the-jovial-jester]

look at my little blorbos I love them so

bonus: look at how gay they are for each other

[my-mistake-lets-do-this-again]

I have fallen into the pit of Sherlock Holmes inspired characters where one is the brain and the other is the semi-clueless but also mostly normal one whose got a lot of heart and soul and is the viewer’s way of understanding what the hell is happening in the story.

Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Jeeves and Wooster, and Raffles and Bunny, just to name a few. this character dynamic has me in a chokehold and I NEVER want it to let go.

The stories all work really well because we have that window into characters of such incredible levels of intellect that they NEED another person to make it understandable to the reader and the humanity in the partnership with the other person makes the other character feel more human. It’s a beautiful way to tell a story and I blame Conan Doyle for me entering this rabbit hole.

I’d like to add that this post from @jus-alilcomforblelad is incredibly accurate since I also started with BBC and discovered the other versions of Holmes and have come to truly understand the devices used to make the stories as compelling and interesting as they are. Which then caused my spiral into my current state (which I wouldn’t trade for the world).

[hastingsfondgaze]

Hastings standing off to the side, looking on admiringly. “I say, Poirot! That Tate fellow is really rather an idiot, isn’t he.”

[nocontextpoirot]

[krchar]

ABC Murders

[perfides-subjekt]

Mrs. Todd’s cheque for a guinea was never cashed. Instead Poirot had it framed and hung on the wall of our sitting room. “It is to me a little reminder, Hastings. Never to despise the trivial — the undignified. A disappearing domestic at one end — a cold-blooded murder at the other. To me, one of the most interesting of my cases.”

“The Adventure of the Clapham Cook” was first published in The Sketch, November 14, 1923.

Air date: January 8, 1989.

[evepolastrisgf]

pt. 1/ ??? of me doing these posts lmfao, i might do for each character in particular 😭

i’m right btw.

[rain-shoshana]

Poirot brings Hastings around on investigations for several reasons, one being that he will inevitably flirt with the murderer and lull them into a false sense of security. The upshot of this is Poirot is automatically suspicious of anyone Hastings flirts with and it’s definitely NOT jealousy at all.