As I already said elsewhere, this is one of my go-to comfort reading palate cleanser books; just reliably enjoyable: a mix of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne, alongside a few nonseries short story mysteries. As I’ve also noted in the past, I could do without Simon Vance being one of the narrators, but I’ll gladly sit through even his enunciation as my price for then getting on to Messrs. Suchet and Fraser (and Ms. Hickson — never mind that her powers were waning, at last, by the time she was asked to narrate Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries).
