| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Page history last edited by Jon 14 years, 2 months ago

Christie, Agatha -- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)

 

Blurb:  The proof of the pudding is in the eating.  The six stories in this book are further proof, if any were needed, that as hostess and chef Agatha Christie can serve up a banquet which will satisfy gourmets of the detective story.  In five of them Hercule Poirot is seen at the top of his incomparable form—whether he is involved in the ominous affair of “The Dream” or in “The Mystery of the Spanish Chest”, a matter which, strictly speaking, was no business of his.  He was introduced to the case of “The Under Dog” by a girl whose calm and unemotional voice belied the tale of violence and tragedy she told, but in “Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds” the little Belgian diagnosed murder whilst enjoying a quiet dinner with a friend in a Chelsea restaurant.  In “The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding” he is again involved with food, but, this time, accompanied by unseasonable deeds of ill-will which beset his first experience of the traditional English Christmas.  In the sixth story, “Greenshaw’s Folly”, Miss Marples, calmly and characteristically, finds and solves murders on her doorstep and provides a story which adds further variety to the menu of a feast fit for a king—prepared and served by the Queen of Crime.

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.