Hercules Pouaro's Christmas

Christmas emerges as a period of love, unity, and warmth, where the exchange of gifts, wishes, and meals bring families together around the warm family table.

However, this is not the case at the Lee family's Christmas table, where the magic of the holidays is mixed with mystery and tension. Here, dark thoughts and hidden truths permeate the air, creating a different atmosphere from what we usually encounter during the holidays.

'Hercule Poirot's Christmas' is a detective fiction work by British author Agatha Christie, first published on December 19, 1938. With Hercule Poirot once again at the heart of the crime, on Christmas Eve, trying to find the solution to this case.

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At Christmas we encounter intense hypocrisy, a hypocrisy driven by good intentions, but in any case it remains hypocrisy!

It's Christmas Eve and the entire Li family has gathered at the Li mansion, even members who have been lost for years, to spend the festive days together. After dinner, however, instead of songs and wishes, a crash is heard from the room of the elderly Simeon Li, as furniture is overturned and, in the end, a haunting cry of anguish and pain. The patriarch of the family lies dead in an inexplicably large pool of blood, while the door to the room is locked from the inside.

Hercule Poirot, who is in the area as a guest of the police director, offers to help solve the mystery. Instead of finding the shocked relatives mourning the loss of their own loved one, he finds them looking at each other with suspicion, ready to accuse one another. It will soon be revealed that each of them had their own reasons to hate the tyrannical old Simeon.

PS 1: The scenario has been transferred to the television screen through the well-known series 'The Adventures of Hercule Poirot'.

PS 2: It will definitely remind you of several scenarios from movies that have been inspired by it.

PS 3: If you are a fan of reading foreign literature, then you can find the book in English titled 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas'.

PS 4: If you are a bookworm and would like me to recommend another Agatha Christie book suitable for the Christmas holidays, then I have 'Crimes in the Heart of Winter', a collection of 12 stories featuring detective Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, as well as 'Hercule Poirot's Holy Night'!