(P/B) HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS

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'It is, then, your opinion that Christmas time is an unlikely season for crime?'

Christmas Eve. A time for good cheer-eating, drinking and over-indulgence; an opportunity to bring together families who have grown apart.
The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a bloodcurdling scream. The tyrannical Simeon Lee is found dead in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed. Despite the festivities, it seems that everyone in the family hated the old man, one of them enough to kill him ... (From the publisher)

'Christie makes one departure here.. this is a "good violent murder with lots of blood". (Times Literary Supplement)
'Agatha Christie once more abandonedly dangles the murderer before our eyes and successfully defies us to see them.' (Observer)