When Curtain, the last episode, is shown - at a date undetermined, but likely to involve a major secular-religious festival - Suchet will have played Poirot in 70 episodes that cover all of the substantial fictions that were written about him.
Real fiction and non-fiction?
Afghanistan, for centuries a country of brutal wars between local tribes and foreign armies, has inspired a substantial literature, fiction and nonfiction, military history and semicomic fantasy.
Commentators have, however, drawn attention to its serious undertones, and have regarded it as a transitional work pointing towards Waugh's more substantial postwar fiction.
In exile, Jacobson built up a substantial corpus of fiction dealing with his native country.
In 1932 he also turned down Beckett's first substantial piece of fiction, the novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women, as "a strange thing", although he later admitted that was "perhaps a mistake".
For the less horsey customers, there is a substantial selection of general fiction and non-fiction titles, plus a well-stocked children's section.
He never again wrote a substantial piece of prose fiction.
Winners can expect to sell about 75,000 additional hardcover copies of their books, a substantial number for serious fiction in a country with one-tenth the population of the United States.
The Dunwich Horror (1928) is probably his most substantial fusion of science fiction and the occult, while The Whisperer in Darkness (1930) and At the Mountains of Madness (1931) show him to be moving closer to science fiction.
