Was hercule poirot gay

It is possible some s readers may have speculated Poirot was gay rather than asexual. While it is hard to confirm if this was something Christie encountered, given the time period's intense homophobia, it was certainly not something she could have addressed.

Christie wrote 80 novels, yet there is only one explicitly gay character. Even he does not appear but is only casually mentioned, and credited -- stereotypically -- with good.