![]() ![]() In the Hercule Poirot novel The Clocks, the pseudonymous secret agent Colin Lamb is heavily implied to be the son of the now-retired Battle.īattle also has a secret professional life that is revealed in the denouement to The Seven Dials Mystery, but this is never referred to again. As it is, I shall have to put up with Bill." "Superintendent Battle, you are a wonderful man. ![]() The earliest mention of him being married is in The Seven Dials Mystery, when Eileen Brent says to him: ![]() Until Towards Zero the reader knows nothing of his domestic arrangements, but in this novel we learn the name of his wife ( Mary) and that he has five children, the youngest of whom ( Sylvia) unwittingly provides a key clue to the mystery. ![]() He conveys the impression that he is "carved out of wood", and also that the wood in question is "the timber out of a battleship". In Cards on the Table, Battle is described as a "big, square, wooden-faced man". Superintendent Battle is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie.īattle is notable for his stolid good sense, and he relies in part on the appearance of being a stupid or unimaginative police officer as a means to investigating his cases. His moustache is impressive, even to Hercule Poirot. ![]()
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