Agatha Christie’s novels are the latest works to be rewritten to eliminate verbiage that has been deemed insensitive or inappropriate, it has emerged.

Several of the passages in the author’s Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have reportedly been reworked or stripped altogether from new editions of the books.

Publisher HarperCollins eliminated text containing ‘insults or references to ethnicity’, as well as descriptions of certain characters’ physiques, The Telegraph reported.