Stephen raised the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform. A thick layer of fog covered the station. The huge steam engines whistled long and loud, spreading clouds of steam into the icy atmosphere. Everything was grimy, covered in soot. What a dreadful country... what a dreadful city! Stephen thought with disgust. His initial excitement for London, its shops, its restaurants, its well-dressed, charming women had faded. Now, in his eyes, the city seemed like a shining jewel set in a sorrowful frame. If only he were back in South Africa now... He felt a pang of nostalgia for his homeland; the sun, the blue sky, the blooming gardens... those bushes laden with blue jasmines, the climbing vines that grew up every cottage. And here... dirt, grime, and endless crowds moving, hurrying, jostling. Restless ants busily coming and going all around their anthill.
At Christmas, we encounter intense hypocrisy, a hypocrisy driven by good intentions, but in any case, it remains hypocrisy!
It is Christmas Eve, and the entire Lee family has gathered at the estate, even long-lost members, to spend the festive days together. However, after dinner, instead of songs and well-wishes, a commotion is heard from the room of the elderly Simeon Lee, with furniture being overturned and, finally, an otherworldly cry of anguish and pain.
The patriarch of the family lies dead in an inexplicably large pool of blood, while the door to the room is locked from the inside. Hercule Poirot, who is in the area as a guest of the police chief, offers to help solve the mystery.
However, instead of finding the relatives shocked and mourning the loss of their loved one, he finds them eyeing each other with suspicion, ready to accuse one another. Soon it will be revealed that each of them had their own reasons to hate the tyrannical old Simeon.
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Publisher
- PSychogios
- Original Title
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- Publishers
- Psychogios
- Type
- Crime
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Release Date
- 11/2019
- Publication Date
- 2019
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180131031
Additional Specifications
- Series
- Hercule Poirot
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