Hercule Poirat (Italian: Ficcanaso Squitt) is a rodent that appears in multiple Geronimo books. He is extremely famous and is entitled as the best detective on Mouse Island.
He's always trying to solve mysteries and crimes. When he is featured in a book, you can always be sure a mystery will be involved. He loves to pull silly tricks on people, especially Geronimo. This trait is especially apparent in the book This Hotel is Haunted!, where he repeatedly pretends to be the ghost to scare Geronimo. He is Geronimo's best friend. His office is very messy with banana peels, it's completely broken and there are hundreds of fleas.
Trivia[]
- He is obsessed with bananas, he is the biggest fan of bananas.
- He even has a banana shaped car.
- Most of the times Geronimo slips on banana peels that are left by Poirat.
- He wears a yellow outfit (yellow hat, coat, pjs etc.), no doubt to prove is banana-craving.
- He has appeared in many of his books, like This Hotel Is Haunted! And Peculiar Pumpkin Thief etc.
- He is the deuteragonist of Geronimo Stilton.
- Whenever he pranks Geronimo, that means he wants help from him.
- He has a crush on Thea Stilton.
- He can be described as nosy.
- He is the deuteragonist of the spin-off books the Heromice series.
- He is inspired by Hercule Poirot, the fictional detective created by Agatha Christie. His name is a parody as well.
- When speaking, he uses the diminutive forms of the words in a childish way of saying nouns, some proper nouns and mouse words.
- He was previously known as Nosymouse Squeak.