Unlike Holmes and Dupin, Poirot has many friends. Hercule Poirot appeared for the first time in the novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This is the crucial novel that provides the readers with the first information about the future famous detective. To picture this unusual man, several citations from this novel will be used. A narrator of the story, Arthur Hastings, makes the very first picture about Poirot at the beginning of the story when talking to a company at Styles. ”I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He used to say that all good detective work was a mere matter of method. […] He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever.