He features as Hercule Poirot's good friend in Cards on the Table (1936) and Death on the Nile (1937). The Colonel stars as a detective in four of Christie's books he is introduced in The Man in the Brown Suit, published in 1924. He is immensely rich, having inherited the fortune of Sir Laurence Eardsley. Race is a highly intelligent ex-Army colonel who had a stint as a leader of the counter-intelligence division of the British spy agency MI5. A competent, matter-of-fact man, with an extensive knowledge of the English aristocracy and absolutely no imagination, George provides a steady contrast to Hastings. He first entered Poirot's employ in 1923, and did not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot's death. In addition to these regular characters, all the gentlemen in the novels have servants Poirot's is the most incurable snob he could find. George (or "Georges", as Poirot often calls him) is the faithful valet of Hercule Poirot. These favours usually entail being supplied with cases that would interest him. They also meet in England, where Poirot often helps Japp solve cases and lets him take the credit in return for special favours. He first met Poirot in Belgium in 1904 during the Abercrombie Forgery, and later that year joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara. Japp is an outward-looking, loud and sometimes inconsiderate man, and his relationship with the bourgeois Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot's world. Inspector James Japp is an Inspector at Scotland Yard and appears in many of the stories, trying to solve the cases Poirot is working on.
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