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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I have the next Hugo winner and the next Poirot both sitting beside me on the coffee table (both pbooks), and I'll probably start one or both of them very shortly.
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And it didn't take very long at all to run through The Big Four. It wasn't a great story, and was pretty out-of-character for a Poirot. Not so much a whodunit as a thriller.
It was also a fix up of short stories written before Roger Ackroyd, so really should be read first. I am not tremendously impressed with the canonical reading order of the Poirot stories - particularly when it comes to the short stories - and have yet to find a good guide online. Luckily it doesn't usually matter very much, and I'm lagging behind on the short stories anyway, but still it does bug me.