Author: Cleve Moffett

Cleve Moffett

Cleveland Moffett was the associate editor of the Belgian English-language newsweekly, The Bulletin. He came to Brussels to try to find out what this enigmatic country of Belgium was all about. Forty eight years later he is still here and still trying.

Versions of Belgium III: Agatha Christie and the story of Belgian refugees in WWI

6 September 2018 Cleve Moffett

The Great War ground on. None of the internecine squabbles between the “scum” living in comfort abroad and the profiteers

Versions of Belgium II: Agatha Christie and the story of Belgian refugees in WWI

3 September 20184 September 2018 Cleve Moffett

In Brussels folklore, the story of Max’s inflexible moral authority is known as the one about the pencil and the

Versions of Belgium I: Agatha Christie and the story of Belgian refugees in WWI

2 September 20182 September 2018 Cleve Moffett

Why did Agatha Christie make Hercule Poirot a Belgian? The answer to this question contains a useful set of clues