Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie. Short summary

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Hercule Poirot is visiting his friend Colonel Johnson, the Middleshire police chief, when the murder of millionaire Simeon Lee occurs nearby. The colonel asks Poirot to take part in the investigation.

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A novel in the Hercule Poirot series. Millionaire Simeon Lee unexpectedly invites his entire family to gather at his home for Christmas. The night before Christmas, after a big family scandal, the owner of the house is murdered — Simeon Lee was found with his throat cut in a large pool of blood. At the same time, jewels were missing from the safe. Every member of the family has a motive, but no one has a decent alibi.

At this time, Hercule Poirot is visiting Colonel Johnson, who is conducting the case with his assistant Sugden. Johnson attracts the famous detective to the investigation as a consultant. In the course of the investigation, it turns out that some of those present are not at all who they say they are. For example, Mr. Farr is an accidental crook. He falls in love with Pillar, who also turns out not to be related to the old man.

In the end, Poirot, brings the investigation to a victorious end and finds out that the murderer is Sugden. The policeman turns out to be the illegitimate child of Simeon Lee. He hated his father, who had abandoned him, and had been hatching a plan of revenge for years.