New photo Poirot outrage as BBC adaptation sees him having trained as a priest

Fans of Hercule Poirot are already incensed with the latest TV adaptation for replacing the private detective's upturned moustache with a goatee, and losing his Belgian accent.

Now, the BBC has gone one step further in the finale of The ABC Murders - by revealing that Poirot trained as a priest.

The episode, which was shown last night, stars John Malkovich as the famous sleuth created by Agatha Christie.

Poirot's traditional background sees him as having once worked in the Brussels police force but in the latest adaptation, this was dispensed with.

Instead, Malkovich's character trained as a priest only to relinquish his vows after realising that he would rather bring serial killers to justice. 

In the BBC's adaptation of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, Hercule Poirot (played, above, by John Malkovich) trained as a priest - a backstory which does not feature in the canon. Pictured, he tries to prevent a German soldier from attacking his church in his native Belgium in 1914 

Frustrated viewers - familiar with the Belgian private detective's traditional former role in the Brussels police force - vented their anger on Twitter

In the show, he reveals that he witnessed his congregation burned alive by invading Germans in 1914. 

The storyline for the BBC yarn is set in 1930s England, pitting Poirot against ABC - a serial killer who leaves an edition of The ABC Railway Guide at the scene with his victims in Andover, Bexhill and Churston.

The TV mini-series has been adapted by Sarah Phelps, who previously worked on Christie's The Witness For The Prosecution and And Then There Were None.

Phelps admitted she had never read or watched a Poirot story before working on the screenplay, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The latest TV adaptation (pictured) also saw the sleuth's upturned moustache replaced with a goatee - and he'd lost his Belgian accent, further enraging fans

However, last year, James Prichard, Christie's great-grandson and custodian of her literary estate, said of Phelps's approach to the canon: 'We have this amalgamated view [of Poirot in previous screen incarnations] whereas she has pared it back to exactly the one described in The ABC Murders, and that is very different from probably anything that has gone before'.

Despite some viewers' frustration with the new take on Poirot, there are references to the detective and religion in some of her books - where he often mentions 'le bon Dieu' (the good God).

Christie, who was a practising Anglican, wrote that he was Catholic by birth. 

Furthermore, in the 1948 Poirot mystery Taken At The Flood, he prays in church and declares that he was educated and raised by nuns.

Meanwhile in an adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express, his character - then played by David Suchet - is seen on his knees with a rosary in his hand.      

The TV mini-series has been adapted by Sarah Phelps, who previously worked on Christie's The Witness For The Prosecution and And Then There Were None. Phelps admitted she had never read or watched a Poirot story before working on the screenplay

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