Title: Death in the Diplomatic Service
Fandom: Poirot - Agatha Christie
Pairing: Arthur Hastings/Hercule Poirot
Categories: Case Fic, Mystery, Romance, Angst
Length: Epic (68,482 words)
Warnings: men in love

Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: AO3 Account

Summary: When a young Arthur Hastings visits an old school friend in Belgium in 1913, he expects nothing more than a pleasant holiday. The holiday turns into tragedy with the sudden death of his friend's father, Sir William Bentley, British Ambassador to Belgium. Fearing a severing of diplomatic ties between the two countries, the Belgian government begs the police to put their best man onto the case: Hercule Poirot. As the investigation progresses, Hastings finds himself drawn to the detective's brilliant mind and personality not only on a professional level but also on an increasingly personal one...

Review:
Austenfan writes this interesting case fic that is the setting for her take on how the famous Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings meet for the first time. Of course in Christie's canon there is no romance between those two and therefore the real first meeting happened very differently from what this story portrays but it is nevertheless an entertaining and believeable explanation that touches the slasher in some of us.

For everyone else, this is a whodunnit that's definitely worth your while.

Death in the Diplomatic Service