The labors of Hercules
by Agatha Christie
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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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Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators in fiction, Mystery, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction, English literature, England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Fiction, short stories (single author), Private investigators, fiction, Belgium, fiction, Novela policiaca y de misterioShowing 10 featured editions. View all 86 editions?
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2009, Altın Kitaplar Yayınevi
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