Eleven cases from the early career of the World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth, Poirot Investigates (1923) offers a chance to revisit a collection I’ve not read in, oh, twenty years. Lovely stuff. Agatha Christie is hardly known, of course, as the doyenne of the short story, her talents being much more readily on display in … Continue reading #1339: “With method and logic one can accomplish anything!” – Poirot Investigates [ss] (1924) by Agatha Christie| The Invisible Event
I’m not entirely sure what I expected from The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius, but it wasn’t a Gulliver’s Travels (1726)-esque multinational adventure written by an intelligent gorilla. And while the book that results is in no way a bad thing, it’s also not really a murder mystery in the vein of what I’m … Continue reading #1319: Minor Felonies – The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius [trans. Peter Graves 2017]| The Invisible Event