![]() ![]() What pulls the stories together, and what I found more interesting than the puzzles posed, is the way Poirot and Hastings are revealed to us. The only thing that they have in common is that they let Hercule Poirot play his part of Magician Detective, the man who can and does solve crimes while sitting at his desk with his eyes closed. We have spies, blackmailers, jewel thieves, cursed Egyptian tombs, a kidnapped Prime Minister and opportunistic but devilishly cunning murders. ![]() The subjects of the stories range widely. They are short, energetic, playful pieces, all centring around Poirot’s brilliance in solving apparently unsolvable puzzles.Īt an average of fifteen pages per story, there isn’t a lot of space for anything more than exposition, investigation and resolution – think the kind of thirty-minute TV mystery shows that were pumped out in the 1970’s – but they’re delivered with brio, self-confidence and humour that makes them engaging. ‘Poirot Investigates’, originally published in 1924, is a collection of fourteen Poirot stories, told over 211 pages. ![]()
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