According to the note which serves as a foreword to this book, Agatha Christie wrote this in response to a complaint from a brother-in-law that her books didn't have enough blood. Well, this one has TOO MUCH blood!!
Not an untypical story, a British family that has parted ways and not seen each other for years is summoned home for one last Christmas by their widowed father, who states this may be his last chance to see the entire family before he dies. So the four brothers arrive, each with their own secrets and reasons for not wanting to be at the family home. One brother left over 20 years ago when their mother died and has not been back since. Another, after some sort of scandal, has wandered around the world. And the last is now a Member of Parliament, mostly due to the money his father has paid to advance his career. Added to the family for the first time is a Spanish grand-daughter, whose mother, the only daughter, recently died and her grandfather finally located her and invited her to come for this Christmas celebration. At the last moment, another stranger, the son of the father's old business partner from South Africa, completes the house party.
But on Christmas Eve, after all but the father have finished dinner and gone off to various parts of the house, a huge noise of furniture being tumbled about is heard from the father's room, and a loud scream, as from a dying man. The others rush to break open the locked door and find their father dead, in a pool of blood, with his throat slit.
Hercule Poirot is spending Christmas in the country at the home of the Chief Constable of the District and they are called to the house at the behest of the local Superintendent. The Superintendent shares that a quantity of uncut diamonds has also been stolen from the old man's safe and he had been summoned to find out the thief, which is why he was at the front door when all the ruckus happened.
Everyone, of course, has an alibi. AND everyone, of course, had reason to dislike the old man, but who of them hated him enough to slit his throat, and how did they manage it?
Poirot is invited by the oldest brother to move into the house so he can more easily figure out what happened, and he does. But it is NOT the ending you expect!!
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