The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

An English country house at Christmas time, with its cracking log fires and fine food, may seem an incongruous setting for a crime – but a sinister note left on his pillow warns Hercule Poirot to be on his guard. It is the first of five baffling cases for Poirot: it is followed by a corpse in a Spanish chest; a quarrel that led to murder; a dead man who altered his eating habits; a victim who dreamt his own suicide. And for the icing on the cake – a sixth story featuring Miss Marple and her visit to Greenshaw’s Folly…