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The Labours of Hercules
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just 12 more cases: his self-imposed "labours", all detailed in this short-story collection. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
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- Alex
- 08-07-14
Much enjoyed
What made the experience of listening to The Labours of Hercules the most enjoyable?
Short stories would seem to be Agatha Christie's forte, and these do not disappoint. The stories themselves are highly enjoyable and relatively easy to follow, and the narration is excellent. These stories can be listened to time and again without boredom beginning to sink in, and I would highly recommend this audiobook to any Christie fan.
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- Stephanie
- 25-01-11
Good Stories
Hi. These are fun stories, the odd one is a bit weaker then the rest but overall 9 Poirot stories which are great fun.
They are only around 40 minutes in length so it's easy to sit down and listen to one story at a time.
Well worth a listen, and nicely read.
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- Mary Carnegie
- 11-12-17
Contrived but entertaining
This collection of 12 short stories, tenuously based on the original Graeco-Roman myth (of which Poirot claims never to have heard before he is challenged on the appropriateness of his first name in the prologue and decides to undertake a parallel set of tasks before retiring), is ingenious and unusual, but willing suspension of disbelief is more essential than ever.
Christie is at her most waspish - all foreigners, the less affluent English, the nouveau riche, women of less than perfect appearance, wearing off-the-peg clothes, or pursuing a career are all subject to ridicule. Glad I am she didn’t realise that we Scots exist: the Irish come under fire in this book, but as a sideline.
She’s getting up to date in her own way - drug dealing, but terribly well-bred and respectable, covering up political corruption (but in a good cause!!), unemployment (but portrayed as a distraction from the real business of auctioning a Rubens painting!).
At the same time the unemployability of those boys brought up to expect wealth without work, and girls trained to make “good marriages” continues to play an important role in her writing.
The story of Alexander VI’s goblet is particularly unhistorical and fanciful, for many reasons.
Nevertheless it’s an enjoyable listen, even if you get mental indigestion afterwards.
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- Shopaholic
- 03-04-15
Labours of Hercule poirot
Hugh Fraser narrated it very well. It was an intresting book with twelve different stories all done very well I really enjoyed listening to it.
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- Dr. R. Brompton
- 30-01-15
Surprised me a number of times!
I listen to a lot of Agatha Christie and so I thought that I would be able to guess the endings in this collection of stories, how wrong I was! I was surprised by a number of the twists and turns. A good collection and well read (as always) by Hugh Fraser.
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- Martin
- 24-05-13
Excellent easy listening
I love Poirot stories but this collection is excellent, well read (as always!) and short enough to enjoy in snippets. The flow of the story is perfect so as the book progresses its a fun listen.
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- Shabbir D
- 25-01-17
Great bedtime reading
Nice set of mysteries to solve for Hercule Poirot. Enjoyed it and perfect for bedtime reading.
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- Barrettr5399
- 17-02-20
Too much ‘He said... she said.....’
Good story. Well performed. However this is semi dramatised, so each character has their own voice performed by the narrator. As such it’s obvious who’s talking during a conversation. So the constant repetition ‘Poirot said’ or ‘he said’ or ‘she said’ is jarring and unnecessary.
Overall good book and performance but the producers should have chopped out many of these ‘he said’ insertions.
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- Caronne Hope
- 09-10-19
Excellent listen
Another compilation of stories within 1 story. Hugh Fraser does a good job of character voices.
Really enjoyed this book.🙂
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- JPR Beader
- 24-11-18
Short Stories
Love this collection of short stories, what imagination Agatha Christie had. Hugh Fraser brings it all to life.
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