I primi casi di Poirot

This is a huge collection of 25 of Agatha Christie's best short stories. However, regardless of the similarity of the titles, it does not contain the same stories as Poirot's Early Cases , which contains only 18 short stories and includes several that are different from this collection. I only mention Leggi tutto

The Affair at the Victory Ball An influential man is murdered at the Victory Ball. Simultaneously, his girlfriend overdosed on crack (<--not crack) the same night after leaving the ball early due to a fight with the now-dead man. Whodunnit and whytheydunnit? Enter Poirot! <-- and Hastings The Adventure Leggi tutto

"To have patience with stupidity is difficult for the quick-witted." Some are great, some less; as it almost always happens with short stories, after all. Personally, I have a predilection for Wasps' Nest , while The Third Floor Flat was probably the most unsatisfactory of them all -how could he think Leggi tutto

This book gathers 25 early Hercule Poirot short stories. Christie wrote these tales while on an around-the-world tour leading up to the British Empire Exposition. For those who want more information, a book about the 10-month tour in 1922, The Grand Tour, gives details of the trip, the people who tr Leggi tutto

With Agatha Christie's health failing her publishers suggested that the 1974 Christie at Christmas book should be a collection of old Hercule Poirot short stories previously unpublished in England & this is the result. It's a mixed bag of stroies & I remember some of them being adapted for the Poirot Leggi tutto

For the book that would close out my 2022 Reader's Challenge , I chose this collection of Hercule Poirot's early cases by Agatha Christie. 18 short stories in all, some familiar, others not so much, all enjoyable. I'm very glad to have got so many Poirot stories in and really enjoyed some great lines Leggi tutto