Poirot's Early Cases

Agatha Christie

Book 1 of Hercule Poirot

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: Mar 17, 2009

Description:

Poirot's Early Cases is a short story collection written by the master of mystery herself, Agatha Christie. In the collection, Christie charts some of the cases from Hercule Poirot's early career, before he was internationally renowned as a detective.

Poirot's Early Cases features:

The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
The King of Clubs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Plymouth Express
The Chocolate Box
The Veiled Lady
The Submarine Plans
and
The Market Basing Mystery **

Review

"Be prepared to be charmed by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser. His [Suchet]’s reading is a generous gift to listeners." -- AudioFile August/September 2003

About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.