Sadly though, in the world of Agatha Christie, although the volume of upper and lower class characters were created equally, if you lived life ‘below stairs’ as a member of staff in an Agatha Christie Poirot novel, you were much more likely to be killed than kill. Furthermore, across the whole plethora of murder mystery novels which Christie wrote, if a maid or member of household staff is murdered – they are usually killed as a secondary murder – in this I mean that they were not the primary target but a killed afterwards as they knew too much or were a witness to the first murder for example.

Below is the full list of domestic staff in Christie’s Poirot Novels – secretaries, companions and housekeepers have been included in a separate article.