Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition - Paperback

by Agatha Christie (Author)

In this official edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder--and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case.

"Poirot has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time
but never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in Hercule
Poirot's Christmas." --New York Times

On Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivities
are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing
scream. Upstairs--in a locked bedroom--the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee lies
dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.

When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere
not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason
to hate the old man, but which one of them turned a special occasion into an
occasion for homicide? The suspects will indeed be stirring this Christmas
Eve...