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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
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December 1, 2022
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December 31, 2022
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Finishing off our 2022 Detection Club challenge with a Christie classic.

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Christine PNW
Nov 08, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Finished my almost yearly reread of this Poirot mystery.

Let me just say that this is not one of Christie's best mysteries. If I were judging it based solely on it's merit as a Poirot novel, I would probably give it three and a half stars. It's not a bad book, but it's rather pedestrian, and is significantly inferior to Five Little Pigs, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Peril at End House, Sad Cypress, Dead Man's Folly, Appointment With Death and a number of her other He ...more
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Grisette
Mar 12, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 3rd-pers-narration, my-kind-of-detective-thriller
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Nov 28, 2012 rated it really liked it
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Jennifer M
Nov 11, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: owned, classics, z-read-2020
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