Poirot Investigates

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a locked gun room . . . a million dollar bond robbery . . . the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb . . . a jewel robbery by the sea . . . the abduction of a prime minister . . . the disappearance of a banker . . . a phone call from a dying man . . .and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.

What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

A classic collection of Poirot stories

It's a nice cross-section of many of the short story form mysteries by Agatha Christie of her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The collection says that it's narrated by David Suchet (who played Poirot in the television adaptations), but half of them are narrated by Hugh Frasier who played Hastings in that very same series! It's fun to hear each actor voice their own role as well as their fellow's.

A definite re listen !

great listen, David Suchet is Hercule Poirot!. It follows the stories almost exactly yo a t

Superb narration enjoyable mysteries

Superbly narrated by the incomparable David Suchet, these early Poirot short stories by Agatha Christie are fast-paced and enjoyable. The last few stories are narrated by Hugh Fraser, who is also excellent.

Entertaining Short Whodunits

This was a fun little collection of Poirot short stories. Glad to say, of the 14 mysteries, I caught the same clues as Poirot and guessed the culprit at least a few times. If nothing else, I can always tell what Hastings will pick up on and know that that will likely be wrong. Last story a rare gem in which Poirot relates a story of a case in which he failed.
As only my second Poirot book, though I have read many since, I thought these made a great introduction to Christie's style, almost like they were a way of breaking me in as a reader and getting to know Poirot's methods before getting to some more of the full-length novel mysteries.

I prefer longer cases

I prefer longer cases as compared to mini cases. I need to listen over again because I didn’t pay as much attention to these short cases compared to The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links.