For once in this collection, Poirot’s deduction is undeniable all the clues were there. The murderers get away with it, though.Ī million dollars in bearer bonds disappears as it is transported across the Atlantic to New York. Hastings reports back his findings and Poirot miraculously solves the case. Poirot sends Hastings to investigate a murder in the Midlands as he himself is unwell. Very Conan Doyle in concept, and very Holmes and Watson in action. Not up to standard.įriends of Hastings are offered an in-demand flat for a pittance because of their surname. Poirot investigates an apparent natural death on behalf of an insurance company. PC note: the person who refers to ‘the Chink’, as is often the case in Agatha Christie’s stories when someone disparages people of another race, turns out to be the culprit. Written at a time when apparently all Chinamen wore pigtails. Poirot investigates the robbery of an exotic jewel, apparently perpetrated by ‘a Chink’.
All had been published in The Sketch magazine, whose editor, Bruce Ingram, had originally suggested that Agatha Christie have a go at writing short stories featuring Poirot and Hastings. There are eleven stories in this collection. The hardback cover is from a first edition in 1924 – one of these sold for ₤40,000 in 2018. The PAN edition which I read has a nice cover but an image that has no relevance to any of the stories in the book.
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