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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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Calum Fisher
Dec 16, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Christie's magnificently un-festive country-house mystery features a dysfunctional family, each member more horrid than the last, gathering together for what seems guaranteed to be a hideous Christmas even before one of their number butchers the sadistic elderly patriarch with a carving knife in a locked room overlooking the well-appointed grounds. "Cosy" again seems an odd description for a writer so savagely matter-of-fact about the everyday awfulness of her characters - her heart-warming port ...more
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Sandy
Nov 29, 2015 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery-detective-grp, rread-2022, mystery-classic, z2022-ga-challenge, rread-2015
Classic Christie: limited cast of characters, a locked room, an impossible murder and Poirot gathers everyone together for the unveiling of the murderer. Fun.
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Shelves: agatha-christie, mysteries
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Shelves: agatha-christie, owned
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