A review by cocoonofbooks
The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie

4.0

I know I said after Poirot Investigates that Agatha Christie should stick to full-length murder mysteries and not do short stories about other crimes, but apparently she learned something in the two decades between these collections, because I really enjoyed this one! You have to be prepared for a large suspension of disbelief that Poirot would, after deciding to replicate the Labors of Hercules for his last twelve cases, run across (in order) twelve cases that so perfectly matched the Twelve Labors. But I found it fun to see how Christie adapted and modernized each of the different Labors to match some modern-day crime. None of the stories are, in and of themselves, masterpieces, but as a collection this was a nice departure from the usual Poirot mysteries.