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Reading Order for the Unofficial Poirot Buddy Reads
By Jessica-sim · 54 posts · 155 views
By Jessica-sim · 54 posts · 155 views
last updated Dec 27, 2020 08:20AM
Poirot Buddy Read 40: SPOILER THREAD Curtain
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By Jessica-sim · 20 posts · 35 views
last updated Feb 05, 2021 06:12PM
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Mar 05, 2020
Susan in NC
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really liked it
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review of another edition
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christie,
want-to-reread
Fun collection of short mysteries, loosely based on Greek mythology (12 Labors of Hercules). As I like to do with short story collections, I reviewed each as I read it, visible above. I won’t repeat it all here, but will just add I had not read these before, but had seen at least one of them dramatized with David Suchet as Poirot. I enjoyed the premise, that Poirot would solve 12 mysteries, or “labors”, before retiring; there were a wide range of crimes concerned, from art thefts to drug rings t
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Aug 14, 2016
Katie
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
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fiction,
classic-mystery
I generally prefer other classic mystery writers (Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, et al) but I love a few Agatha Christie books and this collection is now one of them. The character of Hercule Poirot is deservedly beloved.
Jan 18, 2008
Jenn Estepp
rated it
liked it
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sleuths-and-gumshoes
Apr 24, 2012
Peggy
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it was ok
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Shelves:
murder-mysteries-thrillers
