Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie's Mrs Oliver
Ariadne Oliver is a regular sort of minor-ish character. She often crops up and helps Poirot while he's en route to solving a mystery or hinders him occasionally by not being particularly helpful. Within Agatha's fictional universe she writes a series of mystery novels starring a detective called Sven Hearson, a Scandinavian detective. This was Agatha's way of gently poking fun at herself. So she has Ariadne Oliver lamenting the fact that everyone wants her to write about this infernal Scandinavian guy,. And she really wishes she doesn't have to write about him quite so much. That is commonly recognised to be Agatha, turning herself into a bit of a comic character
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