All of Agatha: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Jul. 31st, 2022 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapiMy only qualm about Hercule Poirot's Christmas [1938] is that it really has nothing to do with Christmas. Christmas is the reason the fractious family is gathered, but that's the extent of the importance. As far as holiday reads go, I prefer the short story "The Adventure of Christmas Pudding" because there is more about Christmas traditions in it.
I've read this book many times and seen the TV adaptation with Suchet as Poirot. It's a good story of a family with secrets, pasts, large debts, mental health problems, and the lot being brought together by a horrid patriarch, who has a bunch of uncut diamonds on the premises, and lo and behold, he gets murdered spectacularly.
I enjoyed it. I have a wonderful idea for a PWP in my Santa's Workshop 'verse based on it. Christmas in August doesn't have the same ring as Christmas in July but if the porn muse returns I will do it this coming month.
Next up is Murder is Easy which (despite the television adaptation) does NOT have Miss Marple in it. But now I can't help but think of Fitzwilliam as Cumberbatch, so there.
I've read this book many times and seen the TV adaptation with Suchet as Poirot. It's a good story of a family with secrets, pasts, large debts, mental health problems, and the lot being brought together by a horrid patriarch, who has a bunch of uncut diamonds on the premises, and lo and behold, he gets murdered spectacularly.
I enjoyed it. I have a wonderful idea for a PWP in my Santa's Workshop 'verse based on it. Christmas in August doesn't have the same ring as Christmas in July but if the porn muse returns I will do it this coming month.
Next up is Murder is Easy which (despite the television adaptation) does NOT have Miss Marple in it. But now I can't help but think of Fitzwilliam as Cumberbatch, so there.