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Short story collections featuring the character of Hercule Poirot. Pages in category "Hercule Poirot short story collections" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Poirot settles down in London and opens a private detective agency. These are the short story years (26 short stories and only 4 novels). "The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan" (short story from Poirot Investigates)
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. [1] In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.
The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the United States in 1951, Dodd Mead and Company. The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman's Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader's Library. [1]
Murder in the Mews and Other Stories is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club on 15 March 1937. [1] In the US, the book was published by Dodd, Mead and Company under the title Dead Man's Mirror [2] in June 1937 [3] with one story missing (The Incredible Theft); the 1987 Berkeley Books edition of the same title has all four ...
Hercule Poirot (UK: / ˈ ɛər k juː l ˈ p w ɑːr oʊ /, US: / h ɜːr ˈ k juː l p w ɑː ˈ r oʊ / [1]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
When a three-year-old child is kidnapped and held for ransom, Hercule Poirot must use his little gray cells to find the truth. Yet, when suspicion falls on the household, Poirot must face the difficult challenge of uncovering the location of the little boy. [11] Characters: Hercule Poirot; Hastings; Mrs. Waverly; Mr. Waverly; Miss Collins ...
This story with Hercule Poirot was the basis of the novel Sparkling Cyanide, in which Poirot was replaced by Colonel Race and the plot was heavily altered. No magazine publication of The Harlequin Tea Set has yet been traced; the story was first published in book form in the UK in Winter's Crimes #3 in 1971 by MacMillan ( ISBN 0-333-12871-0 ).