Poirot claims ignorance of the legend of Hercules. He thinks about Poirot's and Sherlock Holmes's mothers sitting together and discussing names for their children. Burton, a fellow of All Souls, who recites sonorously some lines from Homer's Iliad (XXIII, 316 f) and turns the conversation round to the subject of Poirot's unusual Christian name and how some of the pagan names parents give to their children do not suit their recipients. Hercule Poirot is enjoying a social visit by Dr. By the end, "The Capture of Cerberus" has events that correspond with the twelfth labour with almost self-satirical convenience. In some cases (such as "The Nemean Lion"), the connection is a highly tenuous one, while in others the choice of case is more or less forced upon Poirot by circumstances. In the foreword, Poirot declares that he will carefully choose the cases to conform to the mythological sequence of the Twelve Labours of Hercules. The stories were all first published in periodicals between 19. His regular associates (his secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, and valet, George/Georges) make cameo appearances, as does Chief Inspector Japp. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6, 42½p). 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.
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