Murder in the Mews - Agatha Christie & Poirot

In 1937 Poirot was at his highest popularity. And the prolific Agatha Christie was getting published more than one book a year, many of them with the little belgian Hercule Poirot as the main character.

That same year, Murder in the Mews arrived at the book stores all around UK. A unusual book featuring 4 medium stories in which Poirot was faced to very unusual and peculiar crimes.                  

The curious thing about Murder in the Mews is that its four adventures, are too long to be considered real short stories. But simultaneously they are too short to form a novel by themselves. Therefore I will call them medium stories. But their longitude does not affect their originality. A suicide full of suspicious facts. The most unusual burglary. Another suicide with a lot of interests behind. And a tragic love triangle in an exotic island.

Nobody is smarter than Hercule Poirot. 

Nobody deceives him.

His method, and his grey cells will always find the path to the truth.

Murder in the Mews is by no means the best short story book by Poirot and Agatha. But it is a quite interesting one.

More traditional books by Poirot and Agatha:

• Appointment with death (1938): sited in Jerusalem, Poirot finds himself in the middle of a family murder. The victim, formerly a prison warden, has a sadistic personality... And that leads to many ennemies.
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938): another saddistic character is the victim of a brutal murder. A bunch of suspects were in the same house celebrating Christmas. Illegitimate sons and daughters. Impostors. And the robbery of some diamonds in the middle. But it gets complicated when the man is found dead in a locked room. But nothing escapes to Hercules Poirot. One of his best novels.

Here you have the depiction of Hercule Poirot by David Suchet in the BBC's Poirot series.