'Don't eat none of the plum pudding. One as wishes you well.'
An English country house at Christmas time, with its crackling log fires and fine food, may seem an incongruous setting for a crime but a sinister note left on his pillow warms.
Hercule Poirot to be on his guard.
It is the first of five baffling cases for Poirot: it is followed by a corpse in a Spanish chest, a quarrel that led to murder , a dead man who altered his eating habit, a victim who dreamt his own suicide. And for the icing on the cake a sixth story featuring Miss Marple and her visit to Greenshaw's Folly....
