Author: Agatha Christie
Title: The Labors of Hercules
Published in: 1984
"The Labors of Hercules" is a series of 12 short stories, about a world-famous detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot is shown as an old man who is about to retire, but cannot resist the temptation of solving difficult crimes, thus embarking on his final 12 mysteries. The stories go through weird and funny twists and turns, before finally revealing the mastermind and how the whole plot had happened.
I like this book because the detective, M. Poirot, is a very smart and agile one, and can solve mysteries up to the highest order. Though complicating, but he manages to unravel all the question marks of the story slowly. The best part, is that the whole story is featured in his viewpoint, and so we do not know the outcome of the story until Hercule Poirot solves the mystery.
There is one case which I particularly like. Hercule Poirot, had just received a case of an expensive stolen picture. He is then assigned to find the picture but at the same time, comes across another mystery. It actually seems like these two cases are totally different, but as it comes to the end of the story, the two cases just seem to merge, and the mystery of the missing girl seems to have some connection to the mystery of the missing painting. The outcome had surprised me a lot.
To read the rest of the book, which I strongly recommend, you will find out the details of the abovementioned case and the other 11 cases which are very amusing. Go and grab the book now!
(Term 3 Post #2)
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