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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
''Hercule Poirot's Christmas'' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 19 December 1938〔''The Times Literary Supplement'', 17 December 1938 (p. 805)〕 (although the first edition is copyright dated 1939).〔Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. ''Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions''. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (p. 15)〕 It retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).〔
It was published in US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1939 under the title of ''Murder for Christmas''. This edition retailed at $2.00.〔 A paperback edition in the US by Avon books in 1947 changed the title again to ''A Holiday for Murder''. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is a locked room mystery.
==Plot introduction==
When multi-millionaire Simeon Lee unexpectedly invites his family to gather at his home for Christmas, the gesture is met with suspicion by many of the guests. Simeon is not given to family sentiment, and not all of the family are on good terms with one another. To make things worse, he has invited the black sheep of the family, Harry, and Simeon's granddaughter, Pilar, whom none of them has ever met before. Simeon is intent on playing a sadistic game with his family's emotions. An unexpected guest – Stephen Farr, son of Simeon Lee's former partner in the diamond mines – means that the house is full of potential suspects when the game turns deadly.
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