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Mrs Oliver often assists Poirot in his cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She often claims to be endowed with particular "feminine intuition," but it usually leads her astray. She is particularly fond of apples, which becomes a plot point in the novel Hallowe'en Party. Like Christie, she is a member of the Detection Club. Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects/detective but it came to nothing (Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran). Oliver also makes an appearance in Elephants Can Remember.

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rdfs:label	Ariadne Oliver
rdfs:comment	Mrs Oliver often assists Poirot in his cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She often claims to be endowed with particular "feminine intuition," but it usually leads her astray. She is particularly fond of apples, which becomes a plot point in the novel Hallowe'en Party. Like Christie, she is a member of the Detection Club. Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects/detective but it came to nothing (Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran). Oliver also makes an appearance in Elephants Can Remember.
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dcterms:subject	Hercule Poirot characters Parker Pyne characters Ariadne Oliver
abstract	Mrs Oliver often assists Poirot in his cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She often claims to be endowed with particular "feminine intuition," but it usually leads her astray. She is particularly fond of apples, which becomes a plot point in the novel Hallowe'en Party. In the books, Oliver's most famous works are those featuring her vegetarian Finn detective Sven Hjerson. Since she knows nothing of Finland, Oliver frequently laments Hjerson's existence. In many of her appearances, Oliver — and her feelings toward Hjerson — reflect Agatha Christie's own frustrations as an author, particularly with the Belgian Hercule Poirot (an example of self-insertion). The self-caricature has also been used to discuss Christie's own follies in her earlier novels. For instance, in Mrs McGinty's Dead, Mrs Oliver talks of having made the blowpipe a foot long in one of her novels, whereas the actual length is something like four-and-a-half feet — the same mistake Christie made in Death in the Clouds. In The Pale Horse, Mrs Oliver becomes acquainted with the Rev and Mrs Dane Calthrop, who are friends of Miss Marple (The Moving Finger); thus establishing that Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot exist in the same world. In Cards on the Table, there is a reference to Mrs Oliver's book The Body in the Library; this title was used by Christie six years later, for a novel featuring Miss Marple. Books by Ariadne Oliver and by a number of other fictitious mystery writers are discussed by characters in The Clocks (1963). Like Christie, she is a member of the Detection Club. Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects/detective but it came to nothing (Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran). Oliver also makes an appearance in Elephants Can Remember. In a short piece in John Bull Magazine in 1956, Christie was quoted as saying, "I never take my stories from real life, but the character of Ariadne Oliver does have a strong dash of myself." The author of the article went on to state, "It is perfectly true that sometimes she works at her stories in a large old-fashioned bath, eating apples and depositing the cores on the wide mahogany surround."

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