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- W2555023250 abstract "Why do people detect? The answer may help us to think a bit about why people read about detection. The answers are various. Poirot detects out of professionalism, boredom, a liking for sport, the wish to clear the innocent, curiosity and the love of truth. Though a professional detective, he hardly ever accepts a commission. This seems to be a matter of a sort of pride, which places him almost - but not quite - amongst the amateur detectives. He is an amateur, at least in the French sense of the word: he loves crime and he acts from personal interest: he seeks interesting cases, not profitable ones: he looks for the elite cases, worth solving for their own sake (Edgeware, xvii). He does, actually, agree to act for Mr Van Aldin, who sends him a cheque at the end of the story, but it is not absolutely clear what he has been commissioned to do and he is independent enough to threaten to drop the case as soon as he suspects Van Aldin of concealing information (Blue, xvi). He refuses to work for the kidnapper Ratchett, even to protect his life and despite (or because of) the offer of big money; he gives the explanation that he does not like Ratchett’s face (Orient, I, iii). In Dumb Witness he insists that he has been commissioned by Miss Arundell, though in fact due to postal delays he does not get her letter till after her death, which surely eliminates any question of a contract between them: Poirot seems to act out of loyalty to someone who has intrigued him." @default.
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