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The 1960s and 1970s · London and Belgium, 1920s

Poirot's Early Cases

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Eighteen stories that had never been collected in Britain

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Quick recap

Eighteen Poirot stories that had only appeared in magazines and American books. Hastings narrates almost all of them. There's a murder at a victory costume ball, an heiress killed on the Plymouth Express, valuables vanishing from a flat and a case whose only clue is a phone call. The standout is The Chocolate Box, in which Poirot tells of a case from his police days in Belgium and admits he got it badly wrong. He asks Hastings to say “chocolate box” whenever he seems too pleased with himself. The stories are short and standalone, good for reading between the novels.

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What changed on screen

  1. ReferenceThe Belgian failure

    In The Chocolate Box, Poirot tells Hastings about a case from his police days in Belgium and admits he got it wrong.

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  2. Behind the scenesLost stories

    The 18 stories had appeared in magazines and US collections but never in a British book. The 1974 collection gathered them all.

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