the adventure of the christmas pudding by agatha christie

In the foreword, Agatha Christie compares this Christmassy short story collection to a menu with ‘two main courses: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and The Mystery of the Spanish Chest a selection of Entrées: Greenshaw’s Folly, The Dream and The Under Dog, and a sorbet: Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds.”

Described as “an indulgence of my own” by Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding is the perfect read to get you into the Christmas spirit.Īn English country house at Christmas time should be the perfect get away from it all – but nothing is ever simple for Hercule Poirot, as he finds not one but five baffling cases to solve. So yeah.Ĭlick here to buy The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.What better way to welcome the start of the festive season than with a selection of Christmassy tales from our favourite little Belgian detective. And this book was still pretty good, it just wasn’t anywhere near her best. Those short stories showed off Christie at her finest, whereas these ones feel more average, if such a term can be applied to Christie’s oeuvre. If you’re more of a Marple fan like I am, you may be better off going for something like Miss Marple’s Final Cases, which I thought was fantastic. That means that some of the stories are duplicated or even included in different versions.Īll in all then, this is a decent enough collection to read if you like short stories and if you’re a fan of Hercule Poirot. I’ve been trying to pick up every book she ever wrote and some of them were only published in America. I was actually talking about this with my Uncle Carl because he’s a big Christie fan himself. It’s always hard to tell with Christie (and even Conan Doyle) because they’ve been imitated so many times by so many different people that it can be hard to tell whether they created the clichés or whether they fell into them. I actually forgot a couple of them as soon as I read them, although there were a few good ones too.Īnother standout for me was The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, in part because I felt like I’d read something similar to it before. He was actually okay in these stories, but I don’t think the cases themselves were the most intriguing. Poirot is fine, but he’s not my favourite. Most of the other stories were only so-so, but I did enjoy Greenshaw’s Folly, the only one of these stories to feature Miss Marple instead of Hercule Poirot. It’s only really the title story that’s actually Christmas-themed, but I did think it was a pretty good one with a few different surprises in store. This isn’t Agatha Christie’s finest work, but it’s still worth reading if you’re an aficionado, especially if you actually pick it up around Christmas like I did.

The adventure of the christmas pudding by agatha christie