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The Labors of Hercules

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

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The Labors of Hercules

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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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 makes up his mind to accept just 12 more cases: his self-imposed "Labors". Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.

©1947 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Short Story Ancient Greece Labor Law
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Clever Plot Twists • Ingenious Mysteries • Excellent Narration • Perfect Length Stories • Varied Cases • Clear Diction
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Hugh Fraser, always classic
Hercule Poirot always brilliant
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Superb stories
Great characters
Just plain unadulterated intriguing literary fun for all

Agatha Christie is Everything

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I did enjoy this Agatha Christie book, but the stories are somewhat short, and somewhat less satisfying.

enjoyable, though not as immersive as her longer s

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Very clever alignments with Hercules Labors. Short stories some what unique to other cases Poirot has solved.

Live these cute short stories.

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fun to read some Poirot that are not murders. also a joy to have a dozen quick mysteries in one book where one doesn't have to remember so much for its entire length
fun read

always fun. Hugh Frazier always great

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While some stories ended rather abruptly, each was delightful and ingenious! I thoroughly enjoyed listening!

Superb as usual!

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I wish that the names of the chapters had been included instead of only the chapter numbers. Twelve of the thirteen chapters were named after the Twelve Labours of Hercules and the stories were tied into them. However, I frequently found it hard to remember which labor the chapter I was reading was about.

Hugh Fraser had excellent voices for the variety of male and female characters.

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What's not to like? Having one of the cast portray all the characters perfectly? Of course!
Some interesting stories?
Yes please.

Although, I noticed there was quite a bit of drug crime in these stories, and the preaching of it's terrible use and abuse on the user. Was there something going on, at the time of the writing of these pieces?

Other then the over preaching of the obvious horrors of addiction, the stories are quite good and it was a pleasure to hear the characters again.

He really is an excellent narrator.

Some very good stories

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I like short stories mire than lengthy books and all the 12 shortstories had a great plot and tge narrator made tgem superbly enjoyable.

great short stories. superb narration.

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I am not a big fan of short stories, so I did not like this book as a whole. Some of the stories are worth it, some I skipped. I read this book because I want to read all the Poirot's, I would not recommend this book unless you are a fan already.

Collection of short stories

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I think one of the very best Poirot collections. Highly original, cleverly plotted, very well narrated. A true favorite.

Quite brilliant

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