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The Labours of Hercules

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet – reasoned the detective – like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.

So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.

 Amateur Sleuths Classics Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Ancient Greece Crime Greek Mythology
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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.

Much enjoyed

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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.

Surprised me a number of times!

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Nice set of mysteries to solve for Hercule Poirot. Enjoyed it and perfect for bedtime reading.

Great bedtime reading

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its a nice book I will recomand it to every one thanks for making it xx

it is a real good book read it by you o o o o o<br />

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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.

Too much ‘He said... she said.....’

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