Hercule Poirot of Police of Brussels, until "the Great War" (World War I) forced him to leave for England. (In "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Poirot had retired at age 55 in 1905) I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked. So much had he become the rage that every rich woman who had mislaid a bracelet or lost a pet kitten rushed to secure the services of the great Hercule Poirot. During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for England as a refugee (although he returned a few times). On 16 July 1916 he again
Murder in the Mews story was the strongest and that "Triangle at Rhodes" the weakest because, "the psychology of the characters is insufficiently developed to make the solution either predictable or plausible". Isaac Anderson of "The New York Times Book Review" of 27 June 1937 said, "The four stories in this book are all fully up to the Agatha Christie-Hercule Poirot standard, and are about as varied in plot and in the characters involved as it is possible for detective stories to be." "The Scotsman" of 1 April 1937 said "To the ingenuity of Mrs Agatha Christie there is no end. She writes with