An edition of The Labours of Hercules (1947)

The labors of Hercules

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The labors of Hercules
Agatha Christie
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An edition of The Labours of Hercules (1947)

The labors of Hercules

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The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947. It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective. His regular sidekicks (his secretary, Miss Lemon, and valet, George/Georges) make cameo appearances, as does Chief Inspector Japp. The stories were all first published in periodicals between 1939 and 1947. In the Foreword to the volume, Poirot declares that he will carefully choose the cases to conform to the mythological sequence of the Twelve Labours of Hercules. In some cases (such as The Nemean Lion) the connection is a highly tenuous one, while in others the choice of case is more or less forced upon Poirot by circumstances. By the end, The Capture of Cerberus has events that correspond with the twelfth labour with almost self-satirical convenience. - Wikipedia.

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Dodd, Mead
Language
English
Pages
265

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Cover of: Les travaux d'Hercule
Les travaux d'Hercule
2015, Editions du Masque
in French
Cover of: Hercule'ün on iki görevi
Hercule'ün on iki görevi
2009, Altın Kitaplar Yayınevi
in Turkish - 2.basım
Cover of: The Labours of Hercules
The Labours of Hercules
2005-05, Perfect Bound
in English
Cover of: Les travaux d'Hercule
Les travaux d'Hercule
1985, Librairie des Champs-Elysées
paperback in French
Cover of: The labors of Hercules
The labors of Hercules
1984, Berkley
in English
Cover of: Les travaux d'Hercule
Les travaux d'Hercule
1982-11, Librairie des Champs-Elysées
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Les travaux d'Hercule
1981, Librairie des Champs-Élysées
in French
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The Labours of Hercules
1967, Dodd, Mead & Company
in English
Cover of: Los trabajos de Hercules
Los trabajos de Hercules
1960, Molino
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: The Labors of Hercules
The Labors of Hercules
1959-08, Dell
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The labors of Hercules
The labors of Hercules
1947, Dodd, Mead
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PZ3.C4637 Lab, PR6005.H66 Lab

The Physical Object

Pagination
265 p.
Number of pages
265

ID Numbers

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OL6512671M
LCCN
47004481
OCLC/WorldCat
171035

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