LJ131 Classic Mysteries: "Hercule Poirot’s Christmas", by Agatha Christie

  • 13 Jan 2026
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Impact Café, lower level (salle 3), 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003
  • 11

Registration

  • New book group members
  • Pamela Combastet
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, by Agatha Christie (also published as Murder for Christmas), is a classic locked-room whodunit wrapped in holiday trappings and family hostility. The wealthy, tyrannical Simeon Lee summons his estranged children home for Christmas, only to be found savagely murdered in his locked bedroom on Christmas Eve. With heavy snowfall trapping everyone in the country house, suspicion falls on each member of the dysfunctional family—along with unexpected guests and mysterious newcomers whose motives are far from festive. Poirot, visiting a friend nearby, is drawn into the investigation and must untangle resentments, secrets, and long-buried betrayals. Sharp, tense, and darkly humorous, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas uses the cozy setting of the holiday season to expose the toxic dynamics beneath a respectable family façade, turning a traditional holiday gathering into a brilliantly constructed mystery about revenge, identity, and the corrosive power of old wounds.

Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered before 06 January, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

Registration opens on Thursday, 18 December.


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