The Labors of Hercules
In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective— like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more...
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In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective— like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed “Labors.” Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062073983 (0062073982)
Publish date: September 27th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 314
Edition language: English
Series: Hercule Poirot (#27)
Many long time Christie fans know that Hercule would go on and on about retiring (at least it felt like it) well in this collection we have Hercule talking about going into retirement and growing the perfect vegetable marrow. This makes me think that the events in this collection all occur before th...
While still undeniably inspired and orginal, I prefer the full length stories to those short stories...
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