Poirot Investigates
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings! First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond! then came the 'suicide' that was murder! the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat! a suspicious death in a locked gun-room! a million...
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The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings! First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond! then came the 'suicide' that was murder! the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat! a suspicious death in a locked gun-room! a million dollar bond robbery! the curse of a pharoah's tomb! a jewel robbery by the sea! the abduction of a Prime Minister! the disappearance of a banker! a phone call from a dying man! and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007120703 (0007120702)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 265
Edition language: English
'Poirot Investigates', originally published in 1924, is a collection of fourteen Poirot stories, told over 211 pages. They are short, energetic, playful pieces, all centring around Poirot's brilliance in solving apparently unsolvable puzzles. At an average of fifteen pages per story, there isn't ...
I really thought this stories as a whole were way too short to get that engrossed in. I found most of them to be merely okay. There was only one that I thought was good. I did have to give it 3 stars though since we have Hastings as our narrator for all of the stories. I do miss Hastings when he is ...
It seems I´m not a big fan of Agatha Christie´s short stories, since they are utterly forgettable and at least two of them didn´t make sense and I couldn´t be bothered to read them again. The reason I give this collection a three star rating in the end is the witty banter relationsship between Poiro...
Das Buch besteht aus den folgenden Kurzkrimigeschichten.Die Augen der Gottheit Mary Marvell die bekannte Filmstar kommt zu Poirot, und erzählte, dass sie einen Brief erhielt, in dem es unterrichtet war, ihr berühmter Diamant der Western Star werde von einem chinesischer Bande gestohlen werden. E...
The best thing about Poirot investigates is Hastings he is a funny guy makes me laugh all the time with his innocence or should I call it stupidity either ways it was a good read. Not to forget Poirot's gray cells and the way he mocks at Hastings.
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