The next morning the children have staged a mock murder for Poirot and he goes along with it but actually it appears that, Nancy, one of the children, is really dead! In her lifeless hand is the red ruby. Oscar Leverin is there and he offers to go for the police. He surreptitiously slips the stone into his pocket. Oscar then comes in and takes Evelyn out for a walk in the snow where the younger kids are building a snowman.Īt this point Poirot gets a note from the butler warning him “not to eat any of the Christmas Pudding”. Next day they have their Christmas dinner and the Squire finds a red stone in his portion of the Christmas Pudding! There are lots of other things in the pudding and Poirot makes light of the situation saying it is only glass. In return he wanted Evelyn to be his wife. Poirot has noticed that she is unhappy and it turns out that she is trapped in an engagement to marry Oscar Levering because the year before, Oscar had agreed to help Evelyn’s aged mother get an expensive operation which had saved her life. He is talking to Evelyn Haworth the eldest of the younger generation of people who have been invited to spend Christmas with the Endicotts. In this version Poirot is ensconced in a country manor house and it is Christmas Eve.
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