Poirot. Tutti i racconti

My review is bound to be boring. Have I lost you already? Anyway, if I had read the book recently for the first time, then I'd have set the rating at 5 stars. But who's counting? The brain behind this series is long dead. If only the life span of us humans was 200 or 300 years. Imagine Agatha Christi Leggi tutto

Completionists beware! Even though I'm not sorry that I now own this. I bought this thinking that it would be my best bet to read some of the harder-to-find Poirot stories because it says that it has his entire casebook. Well, yes and no . And this will only be an issue for people like myself who are t Leggi tutto

Though I have Murder in the Mews, the mass market paperback which contains the title story, and three other great Poirot short stories by Agatha Christie, when I ran across this one some long while ago in Mogo on vacation, I had to have it. The introduction, called Enter Poirot, is by Christie herse Leggi tutto

So, who is Hercule Poirot? Agatha Christie fans will appreciate her imaginative powers of creation in this particular character – a refugee from the German invasion of Belgium that brought Britain into WWI. She gave him such a rich history. He became a ranking policeman in the city of Brussels, befo Leggi tutto

Completionists beware! Even though I'm not sorry that I now own this. I bought this thinking that it would be my best bet to read some of the harder-to-find Poirot stories because it says that it has his entire casebook. Well, yes and no . And this will only be an issue for people like myself who are t Leggi tutto

A must read for every Christie fan. The collection includes every single short story featuring Hercule Poirot. The stories have over time appeared as part of various collections. Finally they all have been compiled in one place. The cover is the illustration by renowned artist W.Smithson Broadhead w Leggi tutto

  A Collection of Canapés It is ridiculous, of course, to read 51 mystery stories back to back with one another, yet I don't want to keep this useful collection on my "currently reading" shelf for ever. Hence the baptism of my new "hiatus" shelf. I imagine it will come in handy for some other story co Leggi tutto

Containing all the Poirot stories in one place, this is an absolute treasure for any Christie fan. It also contains the chronology of the stories, and information on the multiple versions of the same story.