Review #23 - The Double Clue: And Other Hercule Poirot Stories

Author: Agatha Christie

Rating: ★★★★

Reader or not, thriller and mystery enthusiast or not, every single person on this planet would have come across Agatha Christie's books at least once, and read even a few pages, if not an entire book. That's how classic this woman and her stories are. However, we only seem to appreciate her novels so far, not so much of the short stories she wrote. Hence, I chose to give it a shot. And am I glad that I did.

Of all the characters that Agatha Christie wrote of, Hercule Poirot has to be my absolute favourite. His charm, his accent, his obsession with details and perfection (no I'm nothing like that, maybe that's why I like his character), and his ability to look at everything from an angle that might seem so obvious, yet a lot of us tend to overlook it, because our minds are trained to look for the complicated solution rather than the simple one.

If you've read one of the Hercule Poirot stories, then you're in for a definite treat with the short stories. They're as filled with excitement and mystery as a 250 odd paged novel would have, in just a matter of 10 pages. My particular favourite story would be 'The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim’, where Hercule Poirot solves a mystery without ever leaving his arm chair!

This collection of short stories will make you want to train your mind to be either as good a detective as him, or at least, be as smart and meticulous of a man as him. And to those who have never read an Agatha Christie novel, this might be a good one for your "initiation ceremony" to the classic world of crime and murder. It will definitely be reminiscent of the Sherlock Holmes stories, which is what makes it good!

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