title: Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: These 18 cases were first gathered together in 1974, but they represent the early portion of Agatha Christie's career, as well as Poirot's. David Suchet and Hugh Fraser, who played Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and friend Captain Hastings on TV, do the voice work here. Since they don't switch off within any of the stories, but each does all the voices in a given story, that leaves both Suchet and Fraser doing a more exaggerated voice for Poirot, since Hastings actually does most of the narration in the stories. Otherwise, the reading is excellent, and the more interesting cases offer insights into Poirot's heart as he makes moral choices regarding his findings. J.A.S.  AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- <i>Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine</i>
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  ## Poirot's Early Cases
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Hercule Poirot - 38 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Agatha Christie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Agatha Christie
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Poirot's Early Cases
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter I. The Affair at the Victory Ball
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter I. The Affair at the Victory Ball
  
  
  
  
  
  Pure chance led my friend Hercule Poirot, formerly chief of the Belgian force,
  to be connected with the Styles Case. His success brought him notoriety, and
  he decided to devote himself to the solving of problems in crime. Having been
  wounded on the Somme and invalided out of the Army, I finally took up my
  quarters with him in London. Since I have a first-hand knowledge of most of
  his cases, it has been suggested to me that I select some of the most
  interesting and place them on record. In doing so, I feel that I cannot do
  better than begin with that strange tangle which aroused such widespread
  public interest at the time. I refer to the affair at t