Poirot and Me (50 page)

178–9
,
179

Suchet, Peter (brother)
16,
135

S
uchet, Robert (son)
15,
67
,
133,
163,
165,
175,
178–

9

Suchet, Sheila (wife)
3,
5,
6
,
7,
38–9
,
41–2,
66,
68,

71–2,
81,
102,
103
,
104
,
116
,
122–3
,
133,
136,
137,

148,
149–50,
153
,
163
,
166
,
175,
178–9,
191,
216,

219,
227,
240,
246
,
262
,
272
,
273,
287,
288

Sue Ryder hospice
210

Sullivan, Francis L.
80,
212

Sumpter, Donald
129

Sutton, Joe
251

Swinson, Antonia
69

Sykes, Eric
256–7

Taken at the Flood
232,
233,
277

The Taming of the Shrew
136

Taylor, Elizabeth
176

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
21

Tessler, Jeff
230

Thaw, John
22

The Third Floor Flat
60
,
61–2

The Third Girl
244–5,
250,
267

Thirteen at Dinner
16
,
189

This Story of Yours
42

Thorpe, Jeremy
201

Three Act Tragedy
254–5

Three Blind Mice
160

see also The Mousetrap

time-shifting plot device
193

Timmer, Damien
204,
205,
206,
226,
230,
243
,
252

Timon of Athens
106–9

Tinker, Jack
166

The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
112–13

Treves, Freddie
115

Trevor, Austin
188

Triangle at Rhodes
62,
63
,
105–6

Tripp, Jack
158

Trollope, Anthony
198,
199–200
,
201,
237–8

Turner Miller, Sian
288–9

The Underdog
139

Unwin, Paul
206

Ustinov, Peter
16–17,
18
,
106
,
142
,
189,
190,
195,

215,
252,
254,
279

Valentine, Anthony
225
,
227

Vaughan, Tom
284
,
289

Vaughn, Robert
15

The Veiled Lady
82–3

viewing figures
73,
105,
173,
174

vintage cars and planes
49,
50
,
64,
81
,
91,
130

Wallace, Edgar
274

Walter, Harriet
243
,
250

Wanamaker, Zoë
228,
229,
232
,
241
,
250
,
256,
267,

272,
279

Wansell, Geoffrey
29,
69

Warmsley Heath
233

Warner, Craig
238

Wasps’ Nest
111–12,
113

Waterman, Ivan
104

Watkinson, Douglas
141
,
164

Watson, James
221

Watts, James
187

Waugh, Evelyn
161

The Way We Live Now
198,
199–201
,
237–8

Weeks, Honeysuckle
232

West, Sam
262

West, Timothy
256

What a Performance
157–9
,
165–6
,
172

What’s On Stage award
267

When the Whales Came
22,
28–9
,
47

Whitehaven mansions
60

Whittaker, Stephen
129–30

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
176–8

Wilby, James
244

wildlife documentary
236–7

Williams, John
180

Williams, Lia
153,
155
,
156

Wilson, Andy
215,
233,
277

Wilson, Harold
29

Winkleman, Sophie
206

Winston, Jaime
253

Winstone, Ray
253

Wodehouse, P.G.
256

Woodward, Sarah
130

Woodward, Tim
233

A World Apart
15

Yelland, David
58–9,
231,
233
,
250–1

Yelland, Hannah
231

The Yellow Iris
139–40

Zola, Emile
166

• Title Page
  
• Copyright Page
  
• About the Book
  
• About the Authors
  
• Dedication
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• Prologue
  
• Chapter 1 ‘I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole’
  
• Chapter 2 ‘We must never, ever, laugh at him’
  
• Chapter 3 ‘I’m sorry, but I am not going to wear that suit’
  
• Chapter 4 ‘I’m afraid they’re going to be too tame, or too eccentric’
  
• Chapter 5 ‘It was like being hit over the head with a mallet’
  
• Chapter 6 ‘I wanted him to become even more human’
  
• Chapter 7 ‘I felt that I had become the custodian of Dame Agatha’s creation’
  
• Chapter 8 ‘Television's unlikeliest heartthrob . . . the mango man’
  
• Chapter 9 ‘You have to make sure that nothing goes to your head’
  
• Chapter 10 ‘I could be saying goodbye to him, perhaps for a year, perhaps forever’
  
• Chapter 11 ‘A very long way indeed from Poirot’
  
• Chapter 12 ‘There hasn’t been any trouble, has there?’
  
• Chapter 13 ‘I had forgotten how hard he was to find in the first place’
  
• Chapter 14 ‘One of the turning points . . . a legacy to Dame Agatha’
  
• Chapter 15 ‘Easily the worst book I ever wrote’
  
• Chapter 16 ‘Why-why-why did I ever invent this detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature!’
  
• Chapter 17 ’You’re not going to wear those horrible hairnet or moustache-net things, are you?’
  
• Chapter 18 ‘It is never finished with a murder. Jamais!’
  
• Chapter 19 ‘But most o fall, to you all, au revoir and merci beaucoup!’
  
• Poirot: Character Notes’ Facsimile
  
• Picture Section
  
• Index