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Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

Agatha Christie author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:31st Oct '19

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Hercule Poirot’s Christmas cover

Agatha Christie’s seasonal mystery thriller in a sumptuous Christmas hardback Special Edition.

’There is, at Christmas, a spirit of goodwill. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! If you dam the stream of natural behaviour, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and a cataclysm occurs!’

It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.

But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, 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…

‘You yearned for a “good violent murder with lots of blood”. So this is your special story – written for you.’
Agatha Christie

'There is irresistible simplicity and buoyancy of a Christmas treat about it all'
Times Literary Supplement

ISBN: 9780008328955

Dimensions: 204mm x 135mm x 25mm

Weight: 360g

256 pages

Special edition