The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Other Stories

An English country house at Christmas time should be the perfect place to get away from it all - but nothing is ever simple for Hercule Poirot, as he finds not one but five baffling cases to solve. First comes a sinister warning on his pillow to avoid the plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest... next, an overheard quarrel that leads to murder...the strange case of a dead man's eating habits...and the puzzle of a victim who dreams of his own suicide. Poirot's first traditional English Christmas does not pass without incident: a mysterious nocturnal visitor, a warning about the pudding, a near-choking, the retrieval of a ruby -- not to mention a corpse The Adventures of the Christmas pudding and other stories; Murder in the mews Five cases for the great Poirot...