{"id":2427,"date":"2026-01-03T22:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-adventure-of-the-christmas-pudding-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:28:47","slug":"the-adventure-of-the-christmas-pudding-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-adventure-of-the-christmas-pudding-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This book of Christmas fare may be described as \u2018The Chef\u2019s Selection\u2019. I am the Chef!<\/p>\n

There are two main courses: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and The Mystery of the Spanish Chest; a selection of Entrees: Greenshaw\u2019s Folly, The Dream and The Under Dog, and a Sorbet: Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds.<\/p>\n

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest may be described as a Hercule Poirot Special. It is a case in which he considers he was at his best! Miss Marple, in her turn, has always been pleased with her perspicuity in Greenshaw\u2019s Folly.<\/p>\n

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding is an indulgence of my own, since it recalls to me, very pleasurably, the Christmases of my youth. After my father\u2019s death, my mother and I always spent Christmas with my brother-in-law\u2019s family in the north of England \u2013 and what superb Christmases they were for a child to remember! Abney Hall had everything! The garden boasted a waterfall, a stream, and a tunnel under the drive! The Christmas fare was of gargantuan proportions. I was a skinny child, appearing delicate, but actually of robust health and perpetually hungry! The boys of the family and I used to vie with each other as to who could eat most on Christmas Day. Oyster Soup and Turbot went down without undue zest, but then came Roast Turkey, Boiled Turkey and an enormous Sirloin of Beef. The boys and I had two helpings of all three! We then had Plum Pudding, Mince-pies, Trifle and every kind of dessert. During the afternoon we ate chocolates solidly. We neither felt, nor were, sick! How lovely to be eleven years old and greedy!<\/p>\n

What a day of delight from \u2018Stockings\u2019 in bed in the morning, Church and all the Christmas hymns, Christmas dinner, Presents, and the final Lighting of the Christmas Tree!<\/p>\n

And how deep my gratitude to the kind and hospitable hostess who must have worked so hard to make Christmas Day a wonderful memory to me still in my old age.<\/p>\n

So let me dedicate this book to the memory of Abney Hall \u2013 its kindness and its hospitality.<\/p>\n

And a happy Christmas to all who read this book.<\/p>\n

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