Poirot finds himself in an old English country mansion for the Christmas festivities. We open with the two elderly people present, Poirot and Aunt Emily, sitting around the fire and enjoying the disorderly chatter of the family's young folks. Poirot is interrupted by a cautionary note "Don't eat any plum-pudding." What is this all about? And why is our detective with the egg-shaped head even here? Enjoy a classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an eBook. The story now known as "Christmas Adventure" first came out in 1923; it was published in the anthology "While The Light Lasts and Other Stories." It was later expanded into "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" and "The Theft of the Royal Ruby."

Publication Year: 1923