In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holiday season are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder-and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly around the case.

Christmas Eve, as well as the Lee family’s reunion is shattered with a deafening crash of home furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee is situated dead within a pool of bloodstream, his throat slashed.

When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own cause to hate the aged man . .