In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet reasoned the detective like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.
So in the period leading up to his retirement Poirot makes up his mind to accept just 12 more cases: his self-imposed Labors. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
