Two Poirot stories found by Agatha Christie's family in 2004 among her private notebooks, they are intriguing and well plotted as her other works, similarly evoking an era that is past whilst also unearthing the universal reasons for murder and hiding.
To me, The Capture of Cerberus is the least successful. The father of a son torn apart by a mob for the killing of a Nazi dictator is convinced of his son's innocence and comes to Poirot looking for his help. I felt this one was a little hampered by the slightly heavy handed references to the oncoming Second World War and the allegories with Hitler.
The Incident of the Dog's Ball is classic Christie, a letter posted long after being written leads Poirot to the death of a rich old lady in a Kent village, a change of will seems to imply some skullduggery but as usual all is not as it seems. A really great story.
Both are read evocatively by David Suchet, the actor best known to us in the present day for playing Poirot himself, which adds real richness to the audio book.
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