In this official edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder–and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case.”Poirot has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time but never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.” –New York TimesOn Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family’s festivities are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs–in a locked bedroom–the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man, but which one of them turned a special occasion into an occasion for homicide? The suspects will indeed be stirring this Christmas Eve…
My first Agatha Christie read. Do they all follow a very similar structure? A group of people. A murder. Poirot starts to meet with everyone, investigating. Another murder/attempted murder as the net tightens. Everyone gathers for Poirot to identify the murderer? The key to the murder being an obscure rubber toy that squeals like a pig bladder that no modern audience knows about undercut the satisfaction of the ending.
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