![]() ![]() We get to see Poirot and Hastings in their domestic bliss, and confirming their roles within their professional relationship. That’s a helluva lot of jewel – at today’s prices, over £2million. The “Western Star” – the jewel in question – is insured for a sum of £50,000. The first story in the book, although the third to be published in The Sketch a tale of apparent jewellery theft that, of course, isn’t quite as straightforward as it seems. ![]() I’m going to take them one by one and look at each one separately – and don’t worry, I won’t reveal the intricacies of whodunit! Even though they’re just bite-sized stories, they still contain many of Christie’s usual themes and idiosyncrasies. ![]() So when Poirot Investigates hit the bookshops in March 1924, it brought these stories to a wider audience, although I expect some of her readers might have been disappointed not to be getting a brand new novel. The stories had all been originally published between March and October 1923 in The Sketch magazine, at the invitation of the editor, Bruce Ingram, who had become a Poirot fan with The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In one respect, it’s punchier, as Poirot has to waste no time getting to the crux of the matter in another respect it’s also less rewarding as there is no time for character or plot development. As the first of her books not to be in full novel format, it has a very different feel from those previously published. In which Poirot and Hastings set about solving eleven cases, from Egypt to Brighton, through the medium of the short story. ![]()
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