The plot involves drugs in a rather modern manner – as does one of the other stories, along with a couple where drugs are used as mind-altering substances. When Poirot suggests that it is expensive to come to her club, she replies “Are we not told that it is difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Naturally, then, he should have priority in Hell.” The club is owned by Countess Vera Rossakoff (leftover from The Big Four, which really is the worst Poirot book) who is a rather surprising Irene Adler to Poirot: The Woman, the only one that he ever shows any real human interest in, and one who gives him as good as she gets. “The good intentions that pave the way to Hell” Hercule Poirot murmured appreciatively.
“ Wipe the slate clean and start afresh…”
#12 labours of hercules poirot tv#
The last story in the book concerns a nightclub called Hell, with some very well-imagined décor - the TV people took only elements of this story, missing out on what could have been a marvellous set: Beforehand, the mind slightly boggled at how the producers were going to turn it into a coherent 2-hour drama, and the answer is, in a very confused and exotic manner, occasionally clanging into the original book, but mostly careering off through the snow…. The latest one - it went out last night – is The Labours of Hercules, a collection of 12 stories connected by a conceit that Poirot is recreating the classical tasks of his near-namesake – finding day-to-day problems that can be twisted to match the allusions. Observations: The end is coming for Poirot: the remaining few stories about him are being televised now on British TV, with David Suchet having played the role in every one since 1989.
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