The World of Hercule Poirot is a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle created by illustrator Ilya Milstein for Laurence King Publishing. The illustration shows Poirot in a typical drawing room delivering a denouement with notable characters gathered around him. In the room are many objects from the stories featuring Hercule Poirot.e]] stories.
A large fold out colour poster of the puzzle is provided containing a guide to the Poirot stories with text by Chris Chan as well as a puzzle key. Users are challenged to find up to 100 people and objects which reference the Poirot stories, and the annotated answer key lists the people and objects in the puzzle, although there are conceivably more than 100 of them as some artefacts are not labelled.
Characters and objects in the puzzle[]
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The puzzle is 40 pieces across x 25 pieces high. The co-ordinates in the table below are in (x,y) format. The x axis is the number of pieces from left to right and the y axis the number of pieces from bottom to top. Hence the piece at the bottom left corner is 1,1 and the top right corner is 40,25.
The number in the third column refers to the serial number in the answer key. But not every object is listed in the key.
| Coordinates | Person/Object | Answer Key Code | Poirot Story |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,2 | hypodermic syringe | 70 | Appointment with Death |
| 2,7 | Bob with his ball | 62 | Dumb Witness |
| 2,13 | lady in a red kimono | 5 | Murder on the Orient Express |
| 2,16 | witch's ball and hand mirror | 105 | Hallowe'en Party |
| 2,19 | four wigs | 106 | Elephants Can Remember |
| 3,1 | chessboard | 32 | The Big Four |
| 3,4 | velvet stole | 67 | Death on the Nile |
| 3,5 | Pekingnese | 83 | The Nemean Lion |
| 3,11 | silk stockings | 52 | The A.B.C. Murders |
| 3,15 | chemical formula | 40 | Black Coffee |
| 4,1 | blowpipe | 49 | Death in the Clouds |
| 4,8 | tennis racquet | 98 | Cat Among the Pigeons |
| 4,11 | buckled shoe | 76 | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe |
| 4,14 | aircraft blueprints | 59 | The Incredible Theft |
| 4,15 | will | 42 | The Case of the Missing Will, Peril at End House |