- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Murder, Christmas stories
On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut. Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases - and to prevent a clever killer from spilling more blood. Also published as Hercule Poirot's Christmas and Murder for Christmas
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Classical in form, resolved, intimate and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- BANTAM BOOKS, Pan in association with Collins, Pan Books Ltd
- Editions
- 110
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, tur, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780007422371
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“STEPHEN pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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