Tag: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Catching Up to Poirot: Agatha Christie – “Lord Edgware Dies,” “The Blue Train,” “Peril at End House”, “Three Act Tragedy”

Catching Up to Poirot: Agatha Christie – “Lord Edgware Dies,” “The Blue Train,” “Peril at End House”, “Three Act Tragedy”

We let Hercule Poirot go on a couple of Holidays, but it's time to catch up with him. Reading Lord Edgware Dies after Halloween Party is a balm. This is archetypal Agatha Christie, none of that latter-day bitterness. A dinner with 13 guests goes superstitiously wrong- and anyone who doesn't have cooks, maids, butlers, and … Continue reading Catching Up to Poirot: Agatha Christie – “Lord Edgware Dies,” “The Blue Train,” “Peril at End House”, “Three Act Tragedy” →

Grey Cells Vs. Sleigh Bells : Agatha Christie – “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

Grey Cells Vs. Sleigh Bells : Agatha Christie – “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

“In books, I have read that an English Christmas is very gay; that one eats burning raisings and there is a plum pudding all in flames, and something that is called a Yule Log.” "Yes, unless a murder complicates it.” There isn’t much of the holly jolly spirit in “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas,” other than it … Continue reading Grey Cells Vs. Sleigh Bells : Agatha Christie – “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” →