In Death in the Air, Poirot said,
Close your eyes, my friend, instead of opening them wide. Use the eyes of the brain, not of the body. Let the little gray cells of the mind function. Let it be their task to show you what actually happened.
I am closing my eyes and remembering a whole year of the Weekly Poirot. Yes, a year! And my little gray cells, they’re working hard. They’re trying to decide if I should do another year of Poirot quotes or move on to something else.
Hmm. I wonder how many Poirot books I have left to read. Here is a list of all books with links indicating the ones I have read and reviewed here already.
- The ABC Murders
- *The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (short stories)
- After the Funeral (read in 2020)
- *Appointment With Death
- The Big Four
- Cards on the Table
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- The Clocks (read in 2020)
- Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
- *Dead Man’s Folly
- Death in the Clouds (aka Death in the Air)
- Death on the Nile
- Dumb Witness (aka Poirot Loses a Client)
- Elephants Can Remember
- Evil Under the Sun
- *Five Little Pigs
- Hallowe’en Party
- Hercule Poirot’s Casebook (includes stories from various short-story collections, incl. The Labours of Hercules & Murder in the Mews)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (aka Murder for Christmas and A Holiday for Murder)
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- The Hollow
- Lord Edgware Dies
- *Mrs McGinty’s Dead
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Murder on the Links (read in 2012)
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (aka An Overdose of Death, read in 2020)
- Peril at End House (read in 2011)
- Poirot Investigates
- Poirot’s Early Cases (short stories; only one not in the Casebook is *Submarine Plans)
- *Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
- Sad Cypress
- Taken at the Flood (a.k.a There Is a Tide)
- Third Girl
- Three Act Tragedy
- The Under Dog and Other Stories (short stories; only one not in the Casebook is *Submarine Plans)
Wow! That’s a lot of books. I guess I’ll have to continue the Weekly Poirot until I finish reading all of them. Here’s to another year of Poirot!
I knew that I had lost track of my reading and that I had forgotten to review a few books. Looking at this list, I can see that Peril at End House is one of the books that fell through the cracks. Death in the Clouds (a.k.a. Death in the Air) is another. I will write something about them as soon as possible.