Offence archeology is obviously a slippery slope
As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu so insightfully observed 250 years ago of novels, a genre then in its youth: “Perhaps you will say that I should not take my ideas of the manners of the times from such trifling authors; but it is more truly to be found among them than from any historian: as they write merely to get money, they always fall into the notions that are most acceptable to the present taste.
As a foreigner, and therefore, even after decades in England, never really a social insider, Poirot himself is often the butt of mild xenophobia.
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