Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings, solve perplexing cases of murder and deceit in this short mystery collection. One of Agatha Christie’s most beloved sleuths, Hercule Poirot is the immortal protagonist of such classic mystery novels as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. In Poirot Investigates, the first short story collection to feature the famous detective, he takes on the case of a Hollywood film star and her highly coveted diamond, the suspicious suicide of a man who’s worth more dead than alive, the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb, the abduction of a Prime Minister, and much more.