The Labors of Hercules

Description

A unique collection of stories featuring Hercule Poirot and linked by mythological figures and classical legend and lore. It’s everything “Christie’s admirers have come to expect” (New Yorker), including her fans’ favorite detective in a dozen of his most unusual cases.

n 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.