A young researcher appears to not put a lot of effort into her appearance and Poirot is actively ANNOYED by this. An underage girl gets kidnapped and the authorities spend a significant amount of time discussing her looks. Drugs BAD.Ī lot of this book hasn't aged particularly well. There are three, yes, THREE different stories that end up making centered on the evil of drugs. Maybe it’ll save someone else the trouble. Still, sunk cost and all that, I have already invested too much into this so I feel like the least I can do is actually list the references I noticed. The stories are mostly lame and unmemorable, and the Greek references, while present, are mostly quite contrived and meh. Having done all of this, my conclusion is: No, this is still a pretty bad book.
In doing so, I'll probably get the most comprehensive experience possible. Then on Wikipedia (for alternate versions), andįinally in this book to see Poirot's take. Specifically, I was read each Labour in turn: Maybe Agatha Christie was dropping all sorts of epic hidden references that I just didn't get? In the last few months, thanks to Stephen Fry's Greek mythology series, I've been reading a lot about Greek heroes and their arcs, so I figured I was ready for another run at Poirot. I thought the stories were pretty boring when I first read them, but then again I wasn't at the time familiar with the 12 Labours of Hercules myself.
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