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Ariadne Oliver

Mrs Ariadne Oliver is "one of the foremost writers of detective and other sensational stories." She accompanies Poirot on several of his most famous cases, offering solutions based on her astute female intuition.

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Did you know?

Although they struck up a lifelong friendship, it wasn’t to Poirot that Ariadne Oliver was first introduced. She appeared in the short story The Case of the Discontented Solider in 1932, alongside the lead detective Parker Pyne, with whom she was friends.