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The Labors of Hercules

The Labors of Hercules

A Hercule Poirot Collection
MysteryShort Stories
Pages
338
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

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.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

MysteriousLightheartedAdventurous

Genres

Mystery Short Stories Amateur Sleuth Classics

About the author

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the best-selling novelist of all time and the writer the world calls the "Queen of Crime." Born Agatha Miller in Torquay, Devon, she came to fiction on a dare: her sister Madge bet she could not write a convincing detective story, and the result, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Her dispensing work in a hospital pharmacy during the First World War, repeated again during the Second, gave her the expert knowledge...

Characters

Hercule PoirotProtagonist

Nearing retirement, Poirot takes on twelve final cases modeled on the mythic Labors of Hercules.

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