Sven Hjerson

Sven Hjerson is a fictional fictional character in several books by Agatha Christie.

In the books he is a most succesful creation of Ariadne Oliver, more or less the counterpart of Agatha Christie herself, and as such Sven Hjerson is the counterpart of Hercule Poirot, comments by Ariadne Oliver about Sven Hjerson can thus often be read as (thinly disguised) comments by Christie about her characters in general and specifically about Hercule Poirot as in this quote from 'Mrs. McGinty'Dead: "You’ve no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that its good theatre." .

In Christie's Books
Sven Hjerson is a detective star, the books sell well and, as insinuated in the quote, a play about one of his adventures was organized. He seems to have rather some fans, but his creator Ariadne Oliver dislikes (oe even hates) the character (similar to feelings Christie worded about Poirot).

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