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Mr_west 06 Jul 11 at 10:38 a.m. GMT

I'm considering to boy the book Hercule Poirot: the coomplete short stories, and I have a question to those of you who have this collection: 

does the book contain all of Poirot's short stories? I mean, does it contain all of his short stories collection? (Poirot Investigates, Murder In the Mews, Poirot's Early Cases, The Labours Of Hercule, The Big Four etc.)

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LauraPoirot 08 Jul 11 at 1:37 p.m. GMT

Now here're the contents:

the affair at the victory ball

the jewel robbery at the grant metropolitan

the king of clubs

the disappearence of Mr Davenheim 

the Plymouth express

the tragedy at marsdon manor

the kidnapped prime minister

the million dollar bond robbery

the adventure of the cheap flat

the mystery of hunter's lodge

the chocolate box

the adventure of the egyptian tomb

the veiled lady

the adventure of johnnie waverly

the market basing mystery

the adventure of the italian nobleman

the case of the missing will

the incredable theft

the adventure of the clapham cook

the lost mine

the cornish mystery

the double clue

the adventure of the christmas pudding

the lemesurier inheritance

the under dog

double sin

wasp's nest

the third-floor flat

the mystery of the spanish chest

dead man's mirror

how does your garden grow?

problem at sea

triangle at rhodes

murder in the mews

yellow iris

the dream

four-and-twenty blackbirds

foreword to the labours of hercules

the nemean lion

the lernean hydra

the arcadian deer

the erymanthian boar

the augean stables

the stymphalean birds

the cretan bull

the horses of diomedes

the girdle of hyppolita

the flock of geryon

the apples of the hesperiedes

the capture of cerberus

poirot and the regatta mystery

but I'm afraid I don't know of which books they are... hope I could help!

na_well 07 Jul 11 at 9:06 p.m. GMT

From what I undersand the stories found in Murder in the Mews ARE included but maybe we should wait for someone who has the book to confirm this.

I don't know where I read the thing about the expansion but it was somewhere . I think that the originial stories aren't in the book but the expanded versions ARE. For example, The Submarine Plans isn't included but the expansion called The Incredible Theft IS included.

However, you should wait for someone who has the book to clarify this a bit more.

Mr_west 07 Jul 11 at 6:09 a.m. GMT

thanks na_well and Laura 

too bad that Murder in the Mews' stories  don't appear there, I didn't even know that they are were expanded from shorter stories, so at least I learnd something new LOL

na_well 07 Jul 11 at 4:52 a.m. GMT

Hi Mr_west! I had the same doubt as you some time ago and I created a post on this matter called 'Poirot Complete Short Stories'. Maybe you should take a look at it.

I found out that the book doesn't have the stories found on The Big Four or the four stories which were later expanded, namely The Submarine Plans, Christmas Adventure, The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest and The Second Gong.

As Laura said there are 52 stories, including the ones on The Labours of Hercules, Poirot's Early Cases and more.

LauraPoirot 06 Jul 11 at 6:40 p.m. GMT

As far as I can see there aren't the stories of The Big Four but at all there are 52 stories and I really like this Collection 'though I havent read them all yet =)And it includes two previously unpublished Poirot stories.