Anne's Reviews > Yellow Iris: a Hercule Poirot Short Story

This was the basis for the novel Sparkling Cyanide, but the plot was changed up quite a bit from that one to this one. It was still very recognizable, though, because the widower gathers everyone for a creepy reenactment of the night his wife committed suicide and/or was murdered.
POISON!?



In Sparkling Cyanide, it's Colonel Race as the retired MI5 officer who investigates the suspicious goings-on, but in Yellow Iris, it's Poirot who responds to an anonymous plea for help on the telephone.
He shows up at a restaurant in search of a table with yellow irises, ready to save the day.
And of course, he does.



This one was fun for me, but I enjoy seeing how Christie took so many of her shorts and expanded on them. I'd definitely recommend this one to completionists like myself!

Ortiginally published in The Strand Magazine in 1937.
Read as part of the short story collection The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.