The adventure of the Christmas Pudding Author:Agatha Christie Don't eat the pudding... On a silver dish the Christmas pudding reposed in all its glory. A large football of a pudding, a piece of holly stuck in it like a triumphant flag and glorious flames of blue and red rising round it. There was a cheer and cries of "Ooh-ah". Hercule Poirot merely surveyed the portion on his plate with a rather curious ex... more »pression on his face. A result, no doubt, of finding a cryptic note in his bedroom which had read "Don't eat none of the plum pudding. One who wishes you well".« less