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The Lost Mine: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-21)
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Sep 21, 2022
bookshelves: agatha-christie, audio, hoopla, mystery, read-in-2022, short-stories, read-in-a-different-collection
Poirot visits an opium den.
So that shouldn't be boring, right? But it is. I've read and listened to this story multiple times over the years, and it's never managed to keep my interest.
The gist is that Hastings is thinking of buying into some scheme or other that he's read about, and Hercule tells him that he needs to stop speculating and go with safe bets. In fact, the only stock he owns, Burma Mines Ltd., was given to him by a grateful client. Then he proceeds to tell the story of how he solved the murder of a representative of the silver mines.
I don't know what it is about this story, but it definitely isn't a favorite.
Originally published in The Sketch magazine in 1923.
Read as part of the short story collection The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot.
So that shouldn't be boring, right? But it is. I've read and listened to this story multiple times over the years, and it's never managed to keep my interest.
The gist is that Hastings is thinking of buying into some scheme or other that he's read about, and Hercule tells him that he needs to stop speculating and go with safe bets. In fact, the only stock he owns, Burma Mines Ltd., was given to him by a grateful client. Then he proceeds to tell the story of how he solved the murder of a representative of the silver mines.
I don't know what it is about this story, but it definitely isn't a favorite.
Originally published in The Sketch magazine in 1923.
Read as part of the short story collection The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot.
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Sep 27, 2022 06:42AM
Great review.
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