Although there is little evidence regarding their possible subsequent meetings, Hastings saw Poirot a year before the latter's death. The two remain friends right up to Poirot's death. Hastings meets Poirot in Belgium several years before their meeting on 16 July 1916, at Styles Court, Essex, which is their first encounter in literature. Elsewhere he states that he attended Eton College. Neither his first name nor his rank are mentioned in this novel. It is also mentioned later on that he was employed at Lloyd's prior to the war. This makes Hastings thirty years old at the start of the novel. Similarly to his friend Poirot, details of Hastings's life before 1916 are not revealed, though the reader is able to pinpoint Hastings's approximate birth year as 1886 from the first chapter of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, as he mentions that John Cavendish was 'a good fifteen years senior' though hardly looking 'his forty-five years'. He is first introduced in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles and appears as a character in eight other Poirot novels and plays, in addition to being the narrator of several others. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Hastings meets Poir …moreĬaptain Arthur J.

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