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For the Alibi Book Club meeting on December 7 at 6:00 pm!
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The opening epigraph is taken from Macbeth “Yet who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?” and sets the scene for the story to come: tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee is murdered on Christmas Eve and suspicion falls on his dysfunctional family. A classic Christie with a country manor, family resentment, and secrets behind locked doors.
The novel was first published in 1938, and didn't appear in the US until 1939, under the revised title Murder for Christmas (the title used for the magazine version in 1938), which was changed again to A Holiday for Murder in 1947. In 1994 David Suchet starred in the TV adaptation alongside series favourite Inspector Japp, played by Philip Jackson, who didn’t appear in the original novel. BBC Radio 4 dramatised the story in 2005 with Peter Sallis as the Belgian detective.
For the Alibi Book Club meeting on December 7 at 6:00 pm!
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The opening epigraph is taken from Macbeth “Yet who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?” and sets the scene for the story to come: tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee is murdered on Christmas Eve and suspicion falls on his dysfunctional family. A classic Christie with a country manor, family resentment, and secrets behind locked doors.
The novel was first published in 1938, and didn't appear in the US until 1939, under the revised title Murder for Christmas (the title used for the magazine version in 1938), which was changed again to A Holiday for Murder in 1947. In 1994 David Suchet starred in the TV adaptation alongside series favourite Inspector Japp, played by Philip Jackson, who didn’t appear in the original novel. BBC Radio 4 dramatised the story in 2005 with Peter Sallis as the Belgian detective.