The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- 249
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding” is a light, entertaining collection of six cases, five for Poirot and the last for Miss Marple. Despite the title, just one story takes place at Christmas; the book is also the sole Christie first edition in Britain to bring both detectives together. For some readers the stories end just as they get going.
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About the book
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the writer's two most famous detectives. It retailed in the UK for twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and comprises six cases. It was not published in the US although the stories it contains were published in other volumes there.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 96 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 40% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 9 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 87 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding?
It has 249 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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