Poirot's Early Cases
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With his career still in its formative years, we learn many things about how Poirot came to exercise those famous "grey cells" so well. Fourteen of the eighteen stories collected herein are narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings—including what would appear to be the earliest Poirot short story, The Affair at the Victory Ball, which follows soon on the events of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Two of the stories are narrated by Poirot himself, to Hastings. One, The Chocolate Box, concerns Poirot's early days on the Belgian police force, and the case that was his greatest failure: "My grey cells, they functioned not at all," Poirot admits. But otherwise, in this most fascinating collection, they function brilliantly, Poiro's grey cells, challenging the reader to keep pace at every twist and turn.
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47 primary books74 released books#43 in Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is a 74-book series with 47 primary works first released in -2100 with contributions by Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser, and 阿加莎·克里斯蒂.
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Classic Poirot but diluted into short stories. I prefer the novels personally because you can solve the cases along with him, but these were entertaining and fun.
Something from the top of my bucket list: I want to solve a big mystery like Poirot. Not many mysterious things happen around me, though, so I might have to stick with trying (and usually failing) to solve Poirot's cases. Luckily for me, they are plentiful.
This collection was very good. The stories were short enough and interesting enough to keep me entertained. Sometimes in the longer Poirot books, my mind loses the train of the plot but these short stories were great. I actually solved one down to every detail including motive (which I normally NEVER get in Christie mysteries) but I might have actually heard the story before so maybe I shouldn't alert the media.
