Lists for Life.........The Detective......

Do you watch TV?  I mean, did you watch TV last night for the last Poirot?

Well I did but I'm not convinced by Poirot's performance as a dead private detective - it just wasn't convincing!

And I love watching Poirot, Miss Marple, Lewis and his sidekick and Foyle - they're all great.  Great stories, great detectives and.....talking of Greats....let's not forget Morse - as if one ever could!

Now his television death was memorable, emotional, convincing and utterly believable....and still, today, I feel the pain of his departure from our screens.  Lewis is brilliant with or without Morse...but he's not Morse; but I do like him very much.

Talking of detectives, must mention the original, for me anyway, Miss Marple, played by Joan Hickson.  Wow, she was and, still is, absolutely, my most favourite TV crime-solving TV presence.  Just one look from her candid, thoughtful persona, gave you that absolute surety of her knowledge of the human mind, that capacity for intrigue, deceit and mayhem.  Joan Hickson 's Miss Marple displayed an acute awareness, muffled up in knitting and that oh so sweet smile,  all concealing her razor-sharp intellect and deductive powers to get that criminal or criminally-inclined person.  Totally marvellous and brilliant!!!

But back to Poirot....has he really gone, never to return to our TV screens, never to listen to Miss Lemon's dulcet tones, never to reprimand Hastings for not using his mind.....has he really gone for ever???

He could walk in last night's programme ...we saw him....so why all the mystery of his ill-health, his death, his failing powers, when he told Hastings he could walk, which is why he'd sent his personal valet away?

It's all too mysterious for words.  I want Poirot back on our screens, catching the criminal, intent upon some dastardly dead....and I want his smiling assurance that all will be well, tapping his "little grey cells" with that enigmatic smile, so knowledgeable, so charismatic and believable

Daisy