With
both Holmes and Christie's Poirot under our belts, we entered this
ready to try and solve the crime ourselves if possible. Yet more
interesting was observing Miss Marple's own style of detective work.
Poirot likes to differentiate himself from Holmes by saying that, rather
than hunting for footprints and clues, he uses his little grey cells
and just sits and thinks to solve cases. However, while not
as physically active as Mr. Holmes, M. Poirot does his share of
clue-finding in addition to thinking. Miss Marple, however, is pure
greys cells – making her in truth what Poirot claims to be, solving by
watching and thinking in the epitome of the detective style
Poirot lauds. Natural enough since Miss Marple is a little old lady.
Point
of order, the actual difference between Christie's detectives and Mr.
Holmes is not that Holmes does not sit and think; indeed, he spends
whole nights doing nothing else. Rather the difference is that Sherlock
Holmes also gets down and dirty, a master of disguise and expert boxer
ready to physically grapple with criminals if he can catch them in
addition to being a chemist plus much more. I am of the firm opinion that Dame Agatha Christie developed her style of detective to properly differentiate from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes. A differentiation she mastered in the character of Miss Jane Marple.
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