The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding

I can't say enough about how Agatha Christie is the queen of mystery writing. No matter if you are into the hard-core P.I.'s, the bumbling amateur detectives, the Police dramas or cold hard forensic stories, you still can't touch Agatha Christie for classic mysteries! This is such a joy to read---especially if you love Hercule Poirot! I loved this book.

This is a good starter book if you have never read an Agatha Christie mystery before. Poirot is one of her re-occuring characters who is as smart as he is odd. In this case, he has to uncover the mystery of how a ruby got into the pudding of the family he is staying with in England. Many other odd things start unfolding and he has to use his guile to solve it. This character is better than her Miss Marple in my opinion, so people new to this genre should really try it out.

This book is well worth reading if you are a fan of Agatha Christies, Hercule Poirot. Poirots first taste of a traditional English Christmas ends in him solving the disappearance of a Princes ruby. After recieving a sinister note warning him not to eat the Christmas Pudding, a mysterious visitor in the night and his host nearly choking on the Christmas Pudding he sets a trap for his suspect and a joke on the children of the household. Not only in this story does Poirot retrieve a stolen ruby but he also helps his hosts to rid themselves of a problem of their own. This is a brilliant book and well worth the read.