Saturday, December 29, 2012

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Navidades Trágicas)

Tired of all those boring Christmas tv shows ? Why not watch  a good detective story  based on Agatha  Christie's  novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas ( subtitles in Spanish) ?  An interesting story which will keep you guessing right up until the surprise ending !!!


Summary of the plot

On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut (cuello cortado) . Now Hercule Poirot must  solve the case and  prevent a clever killer from spilling  (verter) more blood. 

About the author

Agatha Christie  was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history.She wrote 79 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated in more languages than Shakespeare. She began writing at the end  of  the First World War, when she created Hercule Poirot,the little Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head (cabeza con forma  de huevo) and the passion for order .Poirot and Miss Marple have appeared in films, radio programmes, tv series and stage plays based on her books.
In 1971, Agatha Christie  achieved the highest honor possible to a woman in Britain when she was made Dame of the British Empire.

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