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Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

by Agatha Christie Book 20 in the Hercule Poirot series.

First published 1938

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Simeon Lee summons his adult children to Gorston Hall for Christmas and deliberately provokes them with threats about money and legitimacy. Soon afterwards he is found brutally killed in a locked room, with overturned furniture suggesting a violent struggle.

Poirot, visiting a local police chief, studies blood, noise, family resemblance and the stories of relatives who have spent years resenting the old man. The festive gathering becomes an examination of patriarchal power and inheritance, showing how a household organised around fear can produce both open hatred and carefully concealed identities.

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