In this official edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder--and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case."Poirot has solved some puzzling mysteries in his timebut never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in HerculePoirot's Christmas." --New York TimesOn Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivitiesare shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailingscream. Upstairs--in a locked bedroom--the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee liesdead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmospherenot of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reasonto hate the old man, but which one of them turned a special occasion into anoccasion for homicide? The suspects will indeed be stirring this ChristmasEve...