The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947 and in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence.
Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image.
The cover of issue 587 of the Strand Magazine (November 1939) which featured the first UK publication of The Nemean Lion
Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays, and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
A statuette of Poirot in Ellezelles, Belgium
Albert Finney as Poirot in the 1974 film, Murder on the Orient Express
Peter Ustinov as Poirot in a 1982 adaptation of the novel Evil Under the Sun
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