It seems that the young man's sweetheart has disappeared to a villa in the Swiss alps with her employer. Poirot contemplates retirement, that is until he's enticed into a case by his chauffeur. But everything go awry and a young girl ends up murdered. The cunning criminal has evaded capture before, but the Belgian detective is sure he can snare him. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is on the trail of the thief, Marrascaud. But, as I saw with "The Big Four," the production team behind the show can make unusual stories work well. "The Labours of Hercules" was an unusual choice for the penultimate episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot." The book, which is really a collection of short stories, would have made for much better adapting in the late '80's, when the show was still adapting Agatha Christie's short stories to the screen.
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