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Superintendent Battle is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie who appeared in five of her novels.

Superintendent Battle
First appearance	The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
Last appearance	Towards Zero (1944)
Created by	Agatha Christie
In-universe information
Occupation	superintendent of the police
Spouse	Mary Battle
Children	Sylvia Battle Four others Colin "Lamb" (possibly)
Relatives	James Leach (nephew), a Scotland Yard Inspector
Nationality	British

Novels featuring Superintendent Battle

He appears as a detective in the following novels:

• The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
• The Seven Dials Mystery (1929 - including some of the same characters, notably Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent)
• Cards on the Table (1936, with Hercule Poirot, Ariadne Oliver and Colonel Race)
• Murder is Easy (1939)- Titled as Easy To Kill in the US.
• Towards Zero (1944)

Police detective

Battle is notable for his stolid good sense and careful management of information as a case proceeds. He relies in part on the public notion that police detectives are stupid or unimaginative, when he has a good idea of just what is happening.[1]^: 220 His moustache is impressive, even to Hercule Poirot.[1]^: 221 Until Towards Zero the reader knows nothing of his domestic arrangements (with exception to a comment in Chimneys, when he mentions that he is "very attached of Mrs Battle"), but in this novel we learn that he has a wife and five children, the youngest of whom (Sylvia) unwittingly provides a key clue to the mystery. In the Hercule Poirot novel The Clocks, the pseudonymous secret agent Colin Lamb is heavily implied to be the son of the now-retired Battle.

Battle also has a secret professional life that is revealed in the denouement to The Seven Dials Mystery, but this is never referred to again. In this novel he states, that "half the people who spent their lives avoiding being run over buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good."

Similar statements are given by Major Despard in Cards on the Table and Michael Rodgers in Endless Night and might be approved by Mrs Christie as well.[2]

Battle is in many respects typical of Christie's police officers, being (like Inspector Japp), more careful and intelligent than the police officers of early detective fiction, who had served only as foils for the brilliance of the amateur sleuth.

References

Bibliography

• Barnard, Robert (1980): A Talent to Deceive, Fontana/Collins

External links

• Superintendent Battle at Hercule Poirot Central

На других языках

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- [en] Superintendent Battle

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[fr] Superintendant Battle

Le Superintendant Battle est un personnage de fiction créé par Agatha Christie. Il est superintendant à Scotland Yard et apparait, généralement comme personnage secondaire, dans cinq romans.

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[ru] Суперинтендант Баттл

Суперинтендант Джим Баттл (англ. Superintendent Battle) — герой романов писательницы Агаты Кристи. Он появлялся в немногих романах. Инспектору Баттлу поручали сложные дела, в основном связанные со всякими организациями (например, «Семь циферблатов», «Братство багровой руки»). Суперинтендант Баттл очень культурен в общении с людьми. Это его отличает от реальных английских полицейских[источник не указан 18 дней]. В отличие от других героев Кристи, инспектор Баттл работает в полиции и при расследовании выполняет служебный долг. Баттл чем-то похож на инспектора Джеппа. В кино его роль исполнили:

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