Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this official edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder?and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case. ?Poirot has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time but never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in Hercule Poirot's Christmas .? ?New York Times On Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivities are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs?in a locked bedroom?the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man, but which one of them turned a special occasion into an occasion for homicide? The suspects will indeed be stirring this Christmas Eve...

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Produktdetails

• Hercule Poirot Mysteries
• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 135mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780063143555
• ISBN-10: 0063143550
• Artikelnr.: 62080939

Autorenporträt

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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Rezensionen

'You yearned for a "good violent murder with lots of blood". So this is your special story - written for you.'
Agatha Christie

'There is irresistible simplicity and buoyancy of a Christmas treat about it all'
Times Literary Supplement