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Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)

Agatha Christie

Start date: December 1, 2022

Finish date: December 31, 2022

Discussion: Group Challenges

Why we're reading this: Finishing off our 2022 Detection Club challenge with a Christie classic.
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Jan 06, 2020 Adrian rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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2024 Lunchtime Listen
A wonderful lunchtime listen read by the magic Hugh Fraser and I think now fully deserving of 5 stars.

Synopsis is below, so I wont dwell on that further, just to say Agatha was really good at setting up situations and this is a great one.

2019/20 group Series Read
Well, I was meant to read this in the run up to Christmas, but my reading tailed off as we got nearer Christmas, due to the necessity of fetching family members from stations and airports, and so Poirot's Christma ...more

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Mar 28, 2017 Abrar Nasser rated it really liked it

This is why I like Poirot's cases more than Marple's:

1- The murder happens quickly.

2- I like the questioning part so that I can think along with Poirot's reaction to each person's sayings. Hoping that I can guess the criminal's identity.

3- Poirot's explanation of the crime is the most interesting part in Poirot's cases because that is when you discover that everything was there in front of you but you can't make sense out of it and once Poirot starts explaining every thing fells into places. O ...more

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Nov 21, 2020 Kara rated it really liked it

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Loved this festive murder. Very interesting plot and murder with a great cast of characters. Lots of connections woven together with a very entertaining reveal.

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