Hercule Poirot was Agatha Christie's first creation. Poirot appeared in 1920, but there were several similar characters that preceded him. A. E. W. Mason's Inspector Gabriel Hanaud from 1910 was one of these. Inspector Hanaud resembles Poirot in many ways, but is a more comical French sleuth. He appeared in several novels and short stories. In this story, Hanaud is called in to assist in the investigation of a possible insurance fraud. The narrator is Michael Henrik Wynn, the editor of the educational net radio stream, Historyradio.org
