Sir Bruce Ingram (1877–1963) was an English publisher. He was the editor of The Sketch from 1901 to 1963.[1] He got in touch with Christie and suggested that she write a series of short stories based on the character. According to Christie: "This excited me very much indeed. At last I was becoming a success. To be in The Sketch–wonderful! He also had a fancy drawing made of Hercule Poirot which was not unlike my idea of him, though he was depicted as a little smarter and more aristocratic than I had envisaged him."[2]
Christie dedicated her 1953 novel A Pocket Full of Rye to Ingram.
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- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ingram
- ↑ Agatha Christie, An Autobiography (London: HarperCollins, 2010), 251, ebook edition.