Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple are the most prolific detectives in Agatha Christie's (pictured here) stories, but there are others, including 3 of these 4. Which is not one of her characters?

Montague Egg is not one of Mrs Christie's characters, instead he appears in stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. Emily Trefusis solved "The Sittaford Mystery", Col. Race solved "Sparkling Cyanide", and the Beresfords, Tuppence and her husband Tommy, appeared in "Postern of Fate", and a number of other stories.

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lady draggon

REALLY bad when the question is longer than the explanation!!!

Angeles Dembowski

Read the Sayers mysteries so Montague Egg was familiar, I just forgot he was Sayers invention.

Susan Lake-Harris

Agatha Christie wrote amazingly well, and I love dipping into her books to revisit stories that are cleverly constructed with good characterisations.

earlepg

My step-mother read all of the Agatha Christie books. I've read none. I did manage to guess that she didn't create Montague Egg. I felt relatively sure of the names Beresford and Trefusis as well as the Colonel. That left me with the Egg.

Stephanie Fox

Thank you, Majority vote. ❤️

Jenny Smith

George Oliver Prince, wow, you should read them. They are brilliant. My favourite female author.

David Stuckey

The Beresfords are most famed for the novella"Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" Arguably the first literary example of the British trope ' Cryptic clue left/uttered by dying character's