The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

The position is one of the utmost delicacy, said Mr Jesmond. He was a young man, not more than twenty-three, and he was clearly in a state of complete misery. He sat now, gazing down at his well-polished shoes, with an air of the utmost dejection on his coffee-coloured face. Poirot’s second visitor had up to now said nothing but a polite and formal How do you do. Mr Jesmond glanced at his companion and then back at Poirot. Poirot, what a very serious matter this is. In the winter, he said firmly, I do not leave London. He looked round appreciatively at his comfortable modern flat with its radiators and the latest patent devices for excluding any kind of draught. He had suffered too often in the historic country houses of England.

The thought of a fourteenth-century English manor house filled him with apprehension. Why, one wing of it dates from the fourteenth century.Īgain Poirot shivered.

The New Year, that is what we celebrate.Īh, said Mr Jesmond, but Christmas in England is a great institution and I assure you at Kings Lacey you would see it at its best. In my country, Christmas, it is for the children. Me-I am not an Englishman, said Hercule Poirot. The thought of the English countryside at this season of the year did not attract him.Ī good old-fashioned Christmas! Mr Jesmond stressed it. An old-fashioned Christmas in the English countryside. At this season of the year-Īgain Mr Jesmond interrupted. You are too kind, Hercule Poirot waved a hand, but I really cannot undertake to do as you ask. Your co-operation will be appreciated in the highest quarters. The interruption was suave, dexterous, persuasive rather than contradictory. In 1971, she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. She is best known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short-story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding About Agatha ChristieĪgatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, Timberwolf Drive, Holland, OH 43528Ĩ77.983.7326 Dreamscape Final Logo small for eBook

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie