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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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...Year: 1938
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: In a country house
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: In a country house
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot. Also: Gladys Best, Mr. Charlton, Stephen (Farr) Grant, Sydney Horbury, Colonel Johnson (1), Queenie Jones, Joan Kench, The Lee family: Adelaide, Alfred, David, George, Harry, Hilda, Lydia, Magdalene and Simeon, Conchita Lopez, Beatrice Moscomb, Emily Reeves, Gladys Spent, Superintendent Sugden, Edward TressilianPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1938 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and as 'Murder for Christmas' by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1939 in New York. TV: The novel was adapted by LWT in 1994 for the Poirot series.Notes and reviews
The novel is prefaced by the epigram from Macbeth: "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"Murder methods:
One Throat Cut.xxx