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Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
4.0
"There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”
Christie gives us quite the portrayal of a drama unfolding under the guise of a family gathering. Old Simeon Lee invites all his relatives to stay with him in order to manipulate them for his own amusement, especially through his money, which he holds the strings. However things don't go according to plan when the old man is found dead. Of course, all present could have done it. This is Christie after all :0)
I enjoyed this novel, the nasty characters, their antics, and of course our favourite Belgian investigator, Hercule Poirot himself. It felt like Christie had fun with this one, featuring a crime scene full of blood at the request of one of her fan/member of family, and even adding something very akin to Gollum’s adoration for ‘his precious’. I did get some of the clues correctly and yet didn't follow through to the end, silly me. Nevertheless, great crime classic, just perhaps not the most Christmassy...
Christie gives us quite the portrayal of a drama unfolding under the guise of a family gathering. Old Simeon Lee invites all his relatives to stay with him in order to manipulate them for his own amusement, especially through his money, which he holds the strings. However things don't go according to plan when the old man is found dead. Of course, all present could have done it. This is Christie after all :0)
I enjoyed this novel, the nasty characters, their antics, and of course our favourite Belgian investigator, Hercule Poirot himself. It felt like Christie had fun with this one, featuring a crime scene full of blood at the request of one of her fan/member of family, and even adding something very akin to Gollum’s adoration for ‘his precious’. I did get some of the clues correctly and yet didn't follow through to the end, silly me. Nevertheless, great crime classic, just perhaps not the most Christmassy...