What is your favorite hero in Agatha Christie's novels? Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot?

Question

What is your favorite hero in Agatha Christie's novels? Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot?

Answer 1

Hercule Poirot for sure......

Answer 2

Though I really enjoy Hercule Poirot and his little gray cells, I have a soft spot for Miss Marple.

I love the fact she was always being underestimated. People thought she was simply a nosy busybody when, in reality, she had a razor sharp mind and was a shrewd observer, as far from gullible as one could get.

Answer 3

Miss Marple is the more likeable hero. Her ability to find a macrocosm in the microcosm of her little village reminded me of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I also felt that she was closer to Mrs. Christie herself -- her love of the English village, of small things writ large, of good sense.

Hercule Poirot is a fantastic character, very much a Thinking Machine in the Sherlock Holmes mold, which ain't half bad.  He is much more artificial -- a creature made by design, whereas Miss Marple seemed to have originated from people the author knew, including herself.

Her other chief characters were less successful -- Tommy and Tuppence, the bright young things who seemed to have sprung from second-rate British movies of the '30s ...the very boring Parker Pyne, and Agatha Christie's self-caricature, Ariadne Oliver.

There was also another unsuccessful character, heavily influenced by the writings of G. K. Chesterton and the writings of "The Inklings" -- the Anglo-Catholic writers J. R. R. Tolkienn, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers-- the mysteriously mystical Harley Quin -- who seems to be  half High Church vicar and half smug saint -- think of a Lord Peter Wimsey with a Pre-Raphaelite religious bent, through a glass darkly.