Battle
An intelligent and successful officer of Scotland Yard, he is known for his wooden face, for he rarely shows emotion. For this man of a powerful physique, his specialty seems to be crimes of international diplomacy or politics. Nothing much is known of Battle (his first name remains unknown), except that his wife is Mary, that he has five children, and even a nephew who also works in the Yard. There are only five recorded cases of his, the first in 1925 and the last in 1944. He appears in one Poirot novel, as a dinner guest and fellow investigator of a man's murder.
Superintendent Battle has appeared in:
Novels
- The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
- The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
- Cards on the Table (1936), with Poirot
- Murder Is Easy (1939)
- Towards Zero (1944)