num_pages: 271
description: Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons and their wives visit the family home for Christmas. But the cantankerous patriarch has anything but a heartwarming family holiday in mind when he announces that he is cutting off his sons' allowances and changing his will. So when the old man is found lying in a pool of blood on Christmas Eve, there is no lack of suspects. Hercule Poirot suspends his holiday sorting through the myriad of suspects and motives to find the truth behind the old man's death.
language: English
title: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
titlecomplete: Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
characters: Simeon Lee, Stephen Farr, Coronel Johnson, Hilda Lee, Hercule Poirot, David Lee, Pilar Estravados, Alfred Lee, George Lee, Magdalene Lee, Lydia Lee, Harry Lee, Jennifer Lee
genres: Fiction, Holiday, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Christmas, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 73616
places: Gorston Hall
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers