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Agatha Christie - The Labours of Hercules (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
2008 Facsimile Crime Club Edition.
Poirot undertakes to solve twelve final cases, providing they correspond with the labours of his namesake the Greek hero Hercules.
His regular sidekicks (his secretary, Miss Lemon, and valet, George/Georges) make cameo appearances, as does Chief Inspector Japp. Except for the last story and the foreword in the book version, all the others were first published in periodicals between 1939 and 1947.
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 made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
Details
- Format : Slightly Smaller 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket & Slip
- Condition : Good (Book pages have a little tanning. Dust Jacket Very Good. Outer Slip has been scrunched slightly)
- Category : Fiction - Crime & Mystery
- Published : 1947 (This Edition 2008 - Facsimile by The Crime Club, BCA / Harper Collins)
- ISBN : 9780007280513
- SKU : B003053
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £12.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
Black cloth Hardback.
Image 1 is a stock image. Image 2 is the book for sale.
External Reviews
"Twelve little masterpieces of detection. Poirot and Agatha Christie at their inimitable best’ - Sunday Express.
‘I have often thought that Mrs Christie was not so much the best as the only living writer of the true of classic detective story’ - Margery Allingham.
‘A finely shaped book, richly devious and quite brilliant - by far the best volume of Poirot shorts’ - San Francisco Chronicle.
The Author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
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