#hercule poirot's christmas

[didanagy]

HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS (1994)

dir. edward bennett

[swiftiereaders]

In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder — and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons — one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitive — and their wives return home for Christmas. But a heartwarming family holiday is not exactly what he has in mind. He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults and finally announces that he is cutting off their allowances and changing his will. Poirot is called in the aftermath of Simeon Lee's announcement.

[melissak2802]

Some musings on the central themes of Dame Agatha's novels.

Starting from Poirot novels. The first three formulated similarly by someone I know and agree with, slightly reworded by me, others are my thoughts.

Some spoilers for The ABC Murders and Evil Under the Sun ahead.

Murder on the Orient Express:

Justice. Including the question if the justice of conscience always matches the law.

Murder of Roger Ackroyd:

Fall of a person. Even someone kind, smart, caring, talented and overall sympathetic is in danger of temptations like greed and cowardice. Avoid the wrong path.

The ABC Murders:

Stigma. Someone alone, weak and especially mentally ill can easily become treated like a monster, while the true monsters more often than not are someone prosperous and healthy willing to transfer the consequences of their crimes to a defenseless person.

Death on the Nile:

Blind love/devotion. Even a selfless passion for someone can become twisted and cause corruption if it's enabling and obsessive.

Evil Under the Sun:

Lust and attention-seeking. Not only it's detrimental to your relationship/family, it makes you an easy victim for a pretty face willing to flatter you.

Hercule Poirot' s Christmas:

Arrogance. If you think yourself superior to the "regular fools" and in the right to toy with people's feelings and issues, one day you run into someone like you who will outwit you and make you suffer for what you caused to them.

Learning to overcome the haunting of past trauma.

Actions in a difficult situation are what shows one's true self. This includes a passive person learning to make decisions.

"Fighting evil" motivated by pride and revenge can make you a monster like your enemy if not worse.

Appointment with Death:

Unhealthy desire for power over people. More often than not the person like that just doesn't want to realise they are pathetic person. Also, one day you may bite off more than you can chew.

Domestic emotional abuse, varying reactions to it (apathy, embitterment, escapism) and ways to free yourself/help freeing someone from its power.

Five Little Pigs:

Righting the past wrongs. (On several levels.)

Big consequences of small things. Sometimes a misunderstanding, a badly-thought white lie or ill-timed joke can cause or contribute to tragedy.

Revenge doesn't make you happy.

Sometimes a family that looks weird from side can actually be harmonious in their own way.

Taken at the Flood:

Feeling lost. Almost everyone in this story starts with the ground being knocked from under their feet one way or another.

Perilous chase of fortune. (This is a fatal flaw of more than one character, and what the title of the novel refers to, being a poetry quote)

[marantis]

You ever read a book by an author you really like and get hit by the realization that you have adapted some of their writing quirks into your own stuff?

[thelastofthebookworms]

Previous polls in this series :

- Poll 1 : popular edition

- Poll 2

- Poll 3

- Poll 4

[sintaspeaks]

Reading 7 Hercule Poirot Books! (SPOILERS)

Promoting an old video! I'm itching to re-start my Poirot Project soon so look out for more reviews soon! In this video, I read Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Third Girl, Peril At End House, Murder On the Links, Sad Cypress, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, and Dead Man's Folly. I like to make these big batches because I like to constrast and compare each book with each other.

[poirott]

Hercule Poirot + festive

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT (1989-2013)

[bananaeatstape]

holy freak my computers gonna shut down in two mins if i don't charge it but anyways textposts pt 2

i added in some of my fav holiday movies because ITS CHRISTMASSSS :DDD

extra silly under the cut

[itsawritblr]

221B Baker Street Christmas!

I'm making my house a Murder Mystery Christmas. My newest acquisition is a Department 56 Literary Classics model of Sherlock Holmes' house, with Sherlock and Watson!

It's all set for the season with garland and wreath, a table full of tiny British Xmas foods, a Christmas tree, and three annoying carolers. Miss Marple, Father Brown, and Hercule Poirot watch over them like Guardian Angels.

Dr. Moriarty left them a plum pudding. I don't think they'll eat it.

A better look at the two.

[hood-ex]

I read an Agatha Christie book to analyze the way she broke down a mystery so maybe I could apply that to some Dick situation, but now I'm just mad because someone completely unexpected was the murderer instead of the two family members I wanted to be the murderer.

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

A Christmas library at @now-winter-comes-slowly...

[didanagy]

THE THEFT OF THE ROYAL RUBY (1991)

dir. andrew grieve

[swiftiereaders]

A Swiftie Playlist for: Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie by @tolerateit and @wineonmytshirt

Hercule Poirot is thrown into the chaos of family strife as he arrives to assist with solving the murder of Simeon Lee, a wealthy man with an extensive family that will do anything to be part of his will and gain his good favor. As the story unfolds and the characters give their accounts, a deeper tale unravels, one that will shake the reader and make you question everything!

[melissak2802]

One of the reasons of why I'm thinking of leaving David Lee without a Miraculous is because Hilda doesn't get one either, and it's kind of unbalanced to leave her the only positive member of the family without one. To her I don't give a Miraculous (if I did, she'd be a Turtle) because first, there are already too many involved with the AU version of the novel, second, I see no place to make it meaningfully working for her narratively, third, I see no way to give it to her and her having it for independent reasons would be too many coincidences.

[azazel-dreams]

The Theft of the Royal Ruby - Hercule Poirot

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[thelastofthebookworms]

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