![]() ![]() ![]() Simeon is not given to warm family sentiment, and the family are not on good terms, in particular, with the black sheep of the family, Harry. The gesture is met with suspicion by the guests. ![]() Multi-millionaire Simeon Lee, frail in his old age, unexpectedly invites his family to gather at his home for Christmas. Another considered this novel to be "a major Christie" and stated that "the rules were not made for Agatha Christie." One reviewer analysed the novel in some detail, considering this and recent novels to have too much of a pattern in the plot and felt that Poirot was "becoming too much of a colourless expert." A later review by Barnard was terse, "Magnificently clued." Plot summary ![]() Most reviews at the time of publication were positive, referring to "the brilliance of the whole conception", and remarking that "never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly". The premise is a family reuniting for Christmas, and they find the host of the gathering murdered in a private room. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is a locked room mystery. A paperback edition in the US by Avon books in 1947 changed the title again to A Holiday for Murder. It was published in US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1939 under the title of Murder for Christmas. It retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). Hercule Poirot's Christmas is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 19 December 1938 (although the first edition is copyright dated 1939). ![]()
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