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In the collection, Christie charts some of the cases from Hercule Poirot's early career, before he was internationally renowned as a detective. All the stories had first been published in periodicals between 1923 and 1935.
- Agatha Christie
- 1974
Chronicled by his friend Captain Hastings, these eighteen early cases - from theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder - were all guaranteed to test Poirot’s soon-to-be-famous ‘little grey cells’ to their absolute limit.
In the collection, Christie charts some of the cases from Hercule Poirot's early career, before he was internationally renowned as a detective. All the stories had first been published in periodicals between 1923 and 1935.
Poirot's testimony at the inquest – that Mrs Franklin had been upset and that he saw her emerge from Dr Franklin's laboratory with a small bottle – persuades the coroner to return a verdict of suicide. Norton appears to still be concerned over what he saw days earlier when out with Hastings and Cole. Hastings advises Norton to confide in ...
‘Ah, my good Japp,’ cried Poirot, ‘and what brings you to see us?’ ‘Well, Monsieur Poirot,’ said Japp, seating himself and nodding to me, ‘I’m on a case that strikes me as being very much in your line, and I came along to know whether you’d care to have a finger in the pie?’
In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express (1934). Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , whose surprising solution proved controversial.
The short story collection Poirot’s Early Cases was published in the UK in 1974 and it contains tales that were written between 1923, two years after Poirot’s original appearance in Christie’s first detective novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and 1935 and published in various periodicals. Here is a catalogue of the stories included ...
