By Agatha Christie

Poirot units himself a problem earlier than he retires -- to unravel 12 situations which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake! In visual appeal Hercule Poirot infrequently resembled an historical Greek hero. but -- reasoned the detective -- like Hercules he were chargeable for ridding society of a few of its such a lot disagreeable monsters. So, within the interval best as much as his retirement, Poirot made up his brain to just accept simply twelve extra instances: his self-imposed 'Labours'. each one may move down within the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.

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