{"id":1242,"date":"2020-12-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2020-12-29T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:56:16","slug":"hercule-poirots-christmas-by-agatha-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Hercule Poirot&#8217;s Christmas by Agatha Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be completely honest that the cover of the beautiul hardback edition is what caught my eye. However, I do also love cosy crime and Agatha Christie is the queen of that exact genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hercule Poirot&#8217;s Christmas is just a wonderful piece of classic crime fiction for the festive season. Set over the Christmas period Poirot ends up investigating the murder of Mr Simeon Lee. A locked room mysterym with a household of motives and suspects, and &#8211; well &#8211; many who are not exactly what they seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This novel is a brilliant piece of cosy crime, which has all the ingredients of a classic Christie. Especially that wonderful reveal, as Poirot offers us all his solution to the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really enjoyed this book this festive season, and it may well become one I regularly revisit to spend some time in the company of the great Hercule Poirot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be completely honest that the cover of the beautiul hardback edition is what caught my eye. However, I do also love cosy crime and Agatha Christie is the queen of that exact genre. Hercule Poirot&#8217;s Christmas is just a wonderful piece of classic crime fiction for the festive season. Set over the Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[528,187,181,203,687],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-year-in-books-2020","tag-agatha-christie","tag-crime-fiction","tag-festive-reads","tag-hercule-poirots-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jrc7-k2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}