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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

Shelves: zz-audiobook, detectives-challenge-hp-2018-20, det-agatha-christie, zz-paper-books, zz-e-book

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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Dec 04, 2023 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-murder-crime-20th-century, christmassy

4.5★

What a page turner!

It's just been too long since I have read a Christie & it had all the elements I look for - an unlikeable victim, a warring family who have reluctantly come together for the Festive Season, an English Manor, an Ancient Family Retainer - bliss!

I have read before but the only thing I remembered was Simeon's granddaughter Pilar. (& some of the Spanish clichés that Christie added really made me want to giggle!) From my own general knowledge (view spoiler) ...more

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Jan 17, 2021 Jazz rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-traditional, mystery-british, golden-age-mystery-pre-1950, locked-room-impossible, mystery-country-house

Fooled once again by Christie! But then I don’t try to out-think her books any more. I simply sit back and enjoy.

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Nov 21, 2020 Kara rated it really liked it

Shelves: agatha-christie

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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