The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie

Raymond West gets drawn into the most deadly adventure when he visits Greenshaw's Folly.

Greenshaw's Folly Main article: Greenshaw's Folly Although Poirot isn't impressed it's not long before Farley is dead. The reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley consults Poirot about a strange dream he keeps having in which he commits suicide. Poirot is curious and decides to investigate. However when he man deviates from his usual eating habits he is dead weeks later.

Henry eats regularly in the restaurant that they are in and he points out a white-bearded man as evidence of his theories. Poirot is eating out with a friend, Henry, and the conversation turns to people's habits. Sir Reuben's wife, Lady Astwell, is convinced that the true criminal is the late man's secretary and she sends her young companion, Lily Margrave, to Poirot to employ him on the case.įour and Twenty Blackbirds Main article: Four and Twenty Blackbirds Sir Reuben Astwell was murdered ten days previously at his country house, Mon Repos, when he was violently hit on the back of the head with a club and his nephew Charles Leverson has been arrested. The Under Dog Main article: The Under Dog Opening it, the startled man found the stabbed body of Mr Clayton. The next morning, Rich's manservant noticed what seemed to be bloodstains on a rug that were seeping from a Spanish chest in the corner of the room. A Major Charles Rich held a small party at his flat.

At his request Miss Lemon prepares a précis of the case. Poirot's attention is caught by newspaper headlines which tell of the latest developments in the 'Spanish Chest Mystery'. The Mystery of the Spanish Chest Main article: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest The thought of Christmas in the English countryside at Kings Lacey, a fourteenth century manor house, makes Poirot shudder but he succumbs to the temptation when told that it has modern oil-fired central heating. Poirot is persuaded to spend an 'old-fashioned English Christmas' at a country house in order to track down a ruby stolen from a foreign prince. Plot summaries The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby Main article: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

4.2 Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple.

1.1 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby.

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie