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The Cretan Bull: A Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-45)
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Mar 22, 2023
bookshelves: read-in-a-different-collection, agatha-christie, mystery, short-stories
After he calls off the engagement for her own safety, a young lady wants Poirot's help in convincing her fiancee that he isn't crazy.
Is there a dangerous strain of mental illness running through his family tree, or is something else driving this young man mad?
Poirot agrees because when he meets Hugh (the maybe crazy fiancee), he thinks he's a fine young bull of a man and that he can use this case as The Cretan Bull part of his retirement package.
Of course, nothing is as it seems, and Hercule has to unpack a lot of family history and even more family secrets to save these young lovers and perhaps even one of their lives.
Recommended.
Originally published in 1939 in This Week magazine & put together with 11 other stories in 1947 and published as The Labours of Hercules.
These 12 cases are chosen by Poirot as his own labors of Hercules that he will undertake before his supposed retirement.
Is there a dangerous strain of mental illness running through his family tree, or is something else driving this young man mad?
Poirot agrees because when he meets Hugh (the maybe crazy fiancee), he thinks he's a fine young bull of a man and that he can use this case as The Cretan Bull part of his retirement package.
Of course, nothing is as it seems, and Hercule has to unpack a lot of family history and even more family secrets to save these young lovers and perhaps even one of their lives.
Recommended.
Originally published in 1939 in This Week magazine & put together with 11 other stories in 1947 and published as The Labours of Hercules.
These 12 cases are chosen by Poirot as his own labors of Hercules that he will undertake before his supposed retirement.
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Mar 22, 2023 08:37AM
Haven't you finished all of Christie's stories yet? I thought it was cool when you started this, but now there's been so many that it seems a Herculean task.
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IT IS! Very punny.And no, I'm still not done. I've got one main book to go, but I'm trying to get all of the shorts I've read reviewed because as I go through the collections, I'll find ONE MORE that I didn't read.
