A review by rach_s
Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Agatha Christie

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

These stories aren't all bad, but the usual charm of reading them wasn't there. It's probably cause they were short stories that made it boring. In usual Agatha Christie books we get to see the pieces and try to form the picture (failing most of the time), but that's the fun of it. In this book, since its a collection of short stories, most of them were rushed and we don't see all the puzzle pieces. It's more fun to have it all laid out and still be proven wrong, which was the key element missing for me in these stories.