Book 638: Poirot, the Post War Years

Poirot:  The Post War Years, by Agatha Christie, collection published by HarperCollins, 2005.

I would give the entire book five stars, even though I would give some of the individual stories only four stars, because, when taken as a whole, these four stories tell a fifth story, and that fifth story is worth reading.

Poirot is older -- elderly, in fact -- and long-retired.  Hastings is in South America.  Japp is out of the picture.  Only Miss Lemon remains to make an appearance.  An elderly attorney named Endicott becomes Poirot's foil in this set of stories, sometimes willingly and sometimes less willingly. But Poirot is every bit as sharp as ever.