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| Original Title: | Hercule Poirot's Christmas |
| ISBN: | 0007120699 (ISBN13: 9780007120697) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Hercule Poirot Mysteries #20 |
| Characters: | David Lee, Lydia Lee, Pilar Estravados, Stephen Farr, Alfred Lee, George Lee, Harry Lee, Hilda Lee, Jennifer Lee, Magdalene Lee, Simeon Lee, Hercule Poirot, Coronel Johnson |
| Setting: | Gorston Hall(United Kingdom) |
Agatha Christie
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 3.94 | 37219 Users | 2744 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #20) |
| Author | : | Agatha Christie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published December 19th 1938) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Holiday. Christmas. Classics |
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In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder — and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons — one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitive — and their wives return home for Christmas. But a heartwarming family holiday is not exactly what he has in mind. He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults and finally announces that he is cutting off their allowances and changing his will. Poirot is called in the aftermath of Simeon Lee's announcement.Rating Containing Books Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #20)
Ratings: 3.94 From 37219 Users | 2744 ReviewsNotice Containing Books Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #20)
This is one of the most ingenious plots in the Poirot series. At the 20th installment, Agatha Christie had still managed to keep up the sparkle of the series. Poirot, now; the little old Belgian detective is still in his supreme element. The story is one which shows Poirot's brilliancy as a detective. His analytical mind and power of observation were the instruments that helped to uncover the mystery behind the murder and apprehend the criminal. This is one story that took me completely byIt seems to me the book has a strong vibe of the previous one of the series, Appointment with Death. Once again it was very much obvious from he beginning of chapter 2 who would be killed: the person who really kept asking for this. A tyrannical and wealthy father Simeon Lee invited all his estranged children (and a grandchild in one case) to spend a Christmas in their former home implying that he softened up somewhat and this invitation would be an olive branch, so to speak. Everybody came and
I was pondering, whilst reading Hercule Poirots Christmas, which quality must exist to make Dame Agathas books for all her weaknesses as an author so readable. And Ive come to the conclusion that that quality is probably consistency. In another writers work say, for example, Raymond Chandlers a scant description, a thin characterisation or a stretch of dialogue which bears virtually no resemblance to any conversation ever had between human beings, would immediately strike a duff note. Hes
Hercule Poirot's Christmas is a detective novel, written in 1938 by the so-called "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie. It is the 20th book in the canon of 45 featuring the diminutive Belgian detective whom she invented. If you tend to lose track as to which Poirot novels you have read, it may be helpful to note that Hercule Poirot's Christmas was published in the USA a year later, under the title "Murder for Christmas", and again underwent a change of title in 1947; a paperback version then being
Invalid Simeon Lee was a wealthy man his lifetime accumulation of his wealth was well known; but he wasnt a man who was liked, especially by his family. His eldest son, Albert and his wife had cared for the old man in the old mausoleum they called home, always doing the old mans bidding. But when Simeon decided to call his sons and their wives home for Christmas, no one could know what was about to occur.As the family gathered on Christmas Eve, the bickering and hatred flowed through the house.
Conniving, lecherous, vindictive self-server, cheating husband, verbally and emotionally abusive father, family tyrant --wealthy old Simeon Lee, by his own admission, is an impenitent liar and thief, described by one of his own sons as "the old devil." As a member of the human race, he doesn't have much to commend him, except for his money. But there's a LOT of that; he made his pile (probably shadily) in South Africa as a young man, prospecting for diamonds, and vastly added to it since by
Its going to be a grand Christmas! All my children around me. Oh, you bet it will be, Simeon, you old rich curmudgeon. Children, children, everywhere, and every one a suspect!But the epigraph, even before we meet him, is telling: Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? (Lady Macbeth)This book was written in part as a response to a letter to Christie from her brother-in-law James, who asked her for a real murder and no more of these anemic killings: A good violent
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