Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's associate, Doctor Watson, to whom he bears a marked resemblance. Moreover, when Christie expanded The Submarine Plans (1923) as The Incredible Theft (1937), she removed Hastings. Of the twenty-two Poirot novels published between 19, he appears in seven. He is not a character in either Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express, the two best-known Poirot novels. In Christie's original writings, however, Hastings is not in every short story or novel. A few were stories into which he had been adapted (for example, Murder in the Mews). Many of the early TV episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot were adaptations of short stories, in most of which he appeared in print. Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, due more to the television adaptations than to the novels. He is also the narrator of several of them. He is first introduced in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (originally written in 1916) and appears as a character in seven other Poirot novels, including the final one Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975), along with a play and many short stories. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
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