It is in this book is a collection of about 10 short stories about Hercule Poirot and his companion Hastings. Unfortunately I have to say after reading that the quality of the novels is not reached. It is absent from the short stories simply the time to build real tension and let the characters come to life. One feels a bit like the Black Stories ago - a mystery is described fairly quickly, one after briefly thinking about it and then read the resolution. Many of the cases are indeed knitted quite intelligent, but I still had in reading the impression that it is a collection of stories that not enough material for a full hergaben novel. Can you read, but you do not.
