Ariadne Oliver

Ariadne Oliver is a recurring character of the novels of Agatha Christie.

The experts of the work of Agatha Christie agree in general to say that Ariadne Oliver is a kind of transposition car-parodic of the novelist in the universe of the fiction, and that it would lend to her character certain character traits which would be personal for him. The “contentions” of Ariadne Oliver with its Finnish detective would be thus a discrete manner to testify to the lassitude which sometimes seized Agatha Christie vis-a-vis its Belgian detective sometimes considered to be a little “cumbersome”.

Apart from these existential questions, Ariadne Oliver is known for its friendship with Hercule Poirot (without intimacy, like in the case of the Poirot-Hastings reports/ratios), her character a little “fofolle”, its unslung and complicated imagination, its chronic instability as regards hairstyle, like being frequently seen crunching certain fruit, to even reverse whole bags by inadvertency of them.

Ariadne Oliver appears in the novels:

Mr. Parker Pyne (1934) ( Parker Pyne Investigates ) collection of news from where Hercule Poirot
Cartes is absent on table (1936) ( Cards one the Table )
Mrs McGinty died (1952) ( Mrs McGinty' S Dead )
Poirot plays the game (1956) ( Dead Man' S Folly )
the pale Horse (1961) ( The Pale Horse ) Romance in which Hercule Poirot
does not appear The Third Girl (1966) ( Third Girl )
the Festival of the pumpkin or the Crime of Halloween (1969) ( Hallowe' in Party )
Elephants Edge Remember (1972)

Without appearing in the novel the Pendulums (1963) ( The Clocks ), Ariadne Oliver is evoked there by the characters who have a conversation on various authors of detective novels.

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