Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 864
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0006513778
Description
This complete collection of over 50 Hercule Poirot short stories in a single volume carries little masterpieces of detection. There is a spectacular diversity in the plots and themes of these cases, ranging from very brief tales to full-length novellas.
Hercule Poirot had a passion for order, for rational thought, and had a justified confidence in his deductive genius. No matter what the provocation, he always remained calm.
The shrewd little detective with the egg-shaped head and the enormous black moustache was created by one of the world’s greatest storytellers, Agatha Christie, who excelled at the art of short story writing. Only she could have devised the cases worthy of Poirot’s skill, the ingenious mysteries that challenge the reader as well as the detective.
There is a spectacular diversity in the plots and themes of these cases, ranging from very brief tales to full-length novellas. Violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings and thefts, all are solved or thwarted with Poirot’s usual panache – and the characteristic application of his ‘little gray cells’
Reviews:
Little masterpieces of detection – Poirot and Agatha Christie at their inimitable best
—Sunday Express
There is no more cunning player of the murder game.
—Sunday Times
Contents
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The King of Clubs
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
The Plymouth Express
The Adventure of the Western Star
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
The Chocolate Box
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Veiled Lady
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Market Basing Mystery
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
The Case of the Missing Will
The Incredible Theft
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The lost Mine
The Cornish Mystery
The Double Clue