A collection ot excellent short stories written by Agatha Christie, with 2 poirot tales in between

Witness for prosecution 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

It's a fascinating tale and you think that you know where this story is headed , until the final act , which absolutely throws curve ball after curve ball and honestly it's just amazing . Morally speaking , it's an unfortunate ending but story wise . Wow!

Accident 🌟🌟🌟⭐


Again , the ending is the point of biggest flex , that said this time around I had managed to guess what was gonna happen in the finale. Also , i found this a bid unrealistic.  Overall still a superb story

FOURTH MAN 🌟🌟🌟

First of all , this is not how Dissociative identity disorder works.  Either way , it felt like a moral dilemma sort of thing

THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE JAR 🌟🌟🌟⭐

At the beginning, i was sceptical , as it looked likely that this story was taking a supernatural turn , however as usual , Christie put me in a false sense of security and sprang the surprise end that i never saw coming .

MR. EASTWOODS ADVENTURE ⭐⭐⭐

Now this story was absolutely gripping and tense , however because of the proximity to the story about the mystery of the blue jar and the resemblance of the final act of both the tales , i rate this a bit lower

PHILOMEL COTTAGE 🌟🌟🌟🌟⭐

This was nearly my favourite tale of the whole book, it was an intriguing plot and when the plot thickened it arrived with ample suspense to keep me on the edge . Alas the ending felt a bit anti climatic for me .

THE RED SIGNAL 🌟🌟🌟

This had both the flaw of being predictable and shoving an unhealthy amount of superstition and supernatural element to me as a reader , ergo it was my least favourite story

THE SECOND GONG 🌟🌟🌟🌟

I stand corrected . As it turns out , this is indeed a hercule poirot book . But for the love of me , I can't shake the feeling that i have read a similar hercule poirot tale before . That's the reason this is rated a bit lower

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE 🌟🌟

This was the disappointing one.  It was cringey , and predictable and absolutely nothing new

SOS 🌟🌟

Way too predictable and at times needlessly lengthy and boring .

WIRELESS 🌟🌟🌟

This was also predictable but a very satisfying tale and although a morose plot , I found it quite funny in the end .

POIROT AND THE REGATTA MYSTERY 🌟🌟 

The set up for this was pretty cliché and the reveal was also very anti climatic.  In fact , I'd argue , the whole thing was not even poirot worthy.  Meh