Poirot Investigates
April 12th, 2007
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie is a collection of 14 short mysteries solved by the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The pace of each story is brisk, and the book makes for light reading.
The stories themselves are quite original. The suspense in the mysteries is also quite well maintained till the end. But there are a couple of stories that are annoying, where a lot is not revealed until the very end when Poirot, very patronizingly, tells Captain Hastings (his companion) the entire story in a new light and admonishes him for not making use of his mental faculties. It sometimes feels that Captain Hastings is the embodiment of the reader himself into the story.
stupid novel ;do not bother to read it.