While it’s always entertaining to watch David Suchet put on his carefully waxed moustache and Belgian accent to play Agatha Christie’s super sleuth, Hercule Poirot, the quality of stories he appears in can be a bit of a mixed bag. The good news about this set is that even though there are only three Poirot mysteries in it, all three are of excellent quality. The first, Three act Tragedy, is a more traditional story, the kind where Poirot gathers everyone toegether at teh end to reveal who the killer is, The second, the Clocks, benefits from being set as Britain prepares for WW II. And the third, Hallowe’en Party, features the return of crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (a delightful Zoë Wanamaker) to help Poirot solve the case.
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