Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie [Review]

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3) by Agatha Christie
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Date read: February 1, 2025

Hercule Poirot
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Murder on the Links
3. Poirot Investigates - Paperback | Kindle
4. The Murder of Roger Akroyd
5. The Big Four
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train
7. Black Coffee
8. Peril at End House
9. Lord Edgeware Dies
10. Murder on the Orient Express
11. Three Act Tragedy
12. Death in the Clouds
13. The ABC Murders
14. Murder in Mesopotamia
15. Cards on the Table
16. Dead Man's Mirror
17. Dumb Witness
18. Death on the Nile
19. Appointment with Death
20. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
21. Sad Cypress
22. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
23. Evil Under the Sun
24. Five Little Pigs
25. The Hollow
26. The Labors of Hercules
27. Taken at the Flood
28. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
29. After the Funeral
30. Hickory Dickory Dock
31. Dead Man's Folly
32. Cat Among the Pigeons
33. Double Sin and Other Stories
34. The Clocks
35. Third Girl
36. Hallowe'en Party
37. Elephants Can Remember
38. Curtain

Agatha Christie
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the “suicide” that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat...a suspicious death in a locked gun room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a prime minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.

What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

Thoughts on Poirot Investigates: A collection of short stories which are fun because we get to see Poirot solving a bundle of crimes in a short period. HOWEVER, the short format does mean that you skip a lot of the little details that make Poirot's investigations so intriguing.

To be fair, short stories are hit or miss with me, so others might be delighted to dive into quick Poirot mysteries. Personally, I like the longer, novel-length books better. Still, they were quick reads with mysteries that ran the gamut from robbery to murder to a sort of treasure hunt for a will. They were all good, I just prefer my mysteries with a little more meat.