Editing Agatha Christie's Poirot (section)

==Novels or stories not included in the series==
Suchet was proud to have completed the entire Poirot canon by the time of the broadcast of the final episode, only slightly short of the target he had set for himself in a 2007 interview of completing the entire canon before his 65th birthday.<ref>Interview [https://web.archive.org/web/20090619193207/http://www.itv.com/Drama/classiccrime/poirot/Castinterviews/DavidSuchetinterview/default.html archived here].</ref>

A number of Poirot short stories were not directly adapted for the series. In most cases, these stories were subsequently reworked by Christie, and adapted for the television series in their final forms. "[[The Plymouth Express]]" was adapted in both its original short story form and as ''[[The Mystery of the Blue Train]]''.

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! Original Story Title || Adaptation Title || Notes
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| ''[[Poirot's Early Cases#"The Lemesurier Inheritance"|The Lemesurier Inheritance]]'' (1923)
| None
| The episode "[[The Labours of Hercules]]" uses the surname "Lemesurier" from the original story, but otherwise has nothing in common with the story.
|-
| ''[[Poirot's Early Cases#"The Market Basing Mystery"|The Market Basing Mystery]]'' (1923)
| "[[Murder in the Mews]]"
| Re-worked by Christie
|-
| ''[[Poirot's_Early_Cases#"The_Submarine_Plans"|The Submarine Plans]]'' (1923)
| "[[The Incredible Theft]]"
| Re-worked by Christie
|-
| ''[[While the Light Lasts and Other Stories|Christmas Adventure]]'' (1923)
| "[[The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding#The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby|The Theft of the Royal Ruby]]"
| Re-worked by Christie (also known as "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding")
|-
| ''[[While the Light Lasts and Other Stories|The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest]]'' (1932)
| "[[The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding#The Mystery of the Spanish Chest|The Mystery of the Spanish Chest]]"
| Re-worked by Christie
|-
| ''[[Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories|The Second Gong]]'' (1932)
| "[[Dead Man's Mirror]]"
| Re-worked by Christie
|-
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks#The Incident of the Dog's Ball|The Incident of the Dog's Ball]]'' (written c.1933, posthumously published)
| "[[Dumb Witness]]"
| Re-worked by Christie
|-
| ''Poirot and the Regatta Mystery'' (1936)
| None
| Re-worked by Christie as a [[Parker Pyne]] story (published as part of ''[[The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories]]'', 1939). Posthumously re-published in ''Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories'' (2008).
|-
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks#The Capture of Cerberus|The Capture of Cerberus]]'' (written c.1939, posthumously published)
| None
| Unrelated to the better known final case of the same title in ''[[The Labours of Hercules]]''. Intended as the last of ''The Labours of Hercules'', Christie re-wrote the entire story due to its political content, retaining only the title.
|-
| ''[[The Labours of Hercules#The Nemean Lion|The Nemean Lion]]'' (1947)
|rowspan="2"| "[[The Labours of Hercules]]"
|rowspan="2"| Not directly adapted as part of the episode's combined narrative.
|-
| ''[[The Labours of Hercules#The Augean Stables|The Augean Stables]]'' (1947)
|-
| ''Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly'' (written 1954, posthumously published)
| "[[Dead Man's Folly]]"
| Re-worked by Christie
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| ''[[Black Coffee (play)|Black Coffee]]'' (play)
| None
| In 2012, Suchet performed a rehearsed reading of ''Black Coffee'', produced and presented by ''The Agatha Christie Theatre Company'', in aid of Chichester Festival Theatre's restoration fund.<ref>Radio Times [http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-07/david-suchet--there-will-be-no-more-poirots--the-moustache-is-hung-up report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105838/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-07/david-suchet--there-will-be-no-more-poirots--the-moustache-is-hung-up |date=24 December 2013}} of the reading.</ref><ref>Details of the reading of [https://agathachristiereader.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/david-suchet-performs-black-coffee/ Black Coffee] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033549/https://agathachristiereader.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/david-suchet-performs-black-coffee/ |date=17 November 2015}} with link to review.</ref>
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