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Agatha Christie: A Holiday For Murder (Notes)
Part 1, Chapter 1.
A man called Stephen gets off a train and he is set on
doing something that he has planned to do for a long time.
The man is from Africa because he said that he felt
homesick.
Was three days before Christmas.
Uses words like Drab
Saw a beautiful girl sitting on the train. She looked out of
place.
Part 1, Chapter 2.
Pilar, the girl narrates.
She was also set to do something.
She saw a good looking man in the corridor. He walked in
to talk to her.
Gave what both people are thinking while they are talking
to one another.
They talked about how much they hated England.
Pilar came from Spain.
A war was on at the time.
She told a story of when her driver was killed by a bomb:
she did not seem to care! (P5)
He told her about Africa and a story of when he was a kid.
Part 1, Chapter 3.
A bunch of people talking about their father. They talk of
how much they hate him, and how they want to break their
chains.
Lydia had a garden with a number of scenes that she had
made the garden to look like.
One of the scenes was the Dead Sea.
Butler had been at the house for forty years.
Part 1, Chapter 4.
Two, David and Hilda, talking about the manÆs mother and
how she was humiliated by his father with his affairs that he
boasted about.
The mother was not able to devorce because of the times.
blames his father for his mothersÆ death.
He had not seen his father since he started college because
of a dispute between what he wanted to do and what his
father wanted him to do.
Part 1, Chapter 5.
George Lee and his wife are talking about his fatherÆs great
wealth. ôA millionaire twice over, I believe.ö (George:P17)
Made his money from mining South African Diamonds.
GeorgesÆ sister died a year before the time of the book.
Harry is the brother who went travelling the world, and
often sent messages to wire him money. He usually got
money from his father even though he had a huge fight with
his father before he left because his father wanted him to do
something with his life.
Part 1, Chapter 6.
The old man and Lydia talking about the two mysterious
people that were supposed to show up the next day.
The person was Pilar, who is his grandaughter.
Harry was the other person who was supposed to arrive the
next day.
Part 2, Chapter 1.
Everyone surprised to see Harry Lee
Throughoutt Book - Reference to fathers appairs with
other women.
Harry surprised to find all family there
George was a member of Parliament
When Alfred walked in they stared at each other.
Part 2, Chapter 2.
Simeon talking of his regrets of cheating on his wife.
Pilar believes strongly in God and praying.
Talks about men being more powerful than men Pilar: ôIf I
were a man i would be like that, too.ö (P31).
Impressed his Granddaughter with uncut diamonds just to
prove to her that he is rich.
Part 2, Chapter 3.
David and Hilda in a sitting room.
David talking about a memory of his mother reading books
to him in that room when he was a child.
Part 2, Chapter 4.
A man that the Doorman had met a long time ago came to
the door and gave him a letter for Simeon.
The doorman could not remember who the man was.
Part 2, Chapter 5.
The man turned out to be the son of an old partner of
Simeons
The man came from South Africa.
Part 3, Chapter 1.
Harry and Simeon talking about the problem of HarrysÆ
presence there.
The main problem was AlfredÆs. His brother.
The old man has a surprise for the rest of the family before
lunch.
Part 3, Chapter 2.
The family walks into the room and the old man is talking
on the telephone to a lawyer. He is talking about making up a
new will after Christmas.
The old man talks about lowering the allowance of George
in order to pay for the rising costs of maintaining the house.
The old man called his dead wife a louse and then said that
she transmitted it onto her children.
The children started yelling at their father and he told them
all to get out.
The old man later stated that watching his whole family get
mad under his joke was fun.
Hilda said that she was afraid for Simeon.
Part 3, Chapter 3.
Tressilian, the butler, is the narrator.
Two of the servants talking and when one said that the
police had shown up at the house, the Valet dropped his cup
of tea and started to perspire. He became at ease when he
found out that it was only to collect for the childrenÆs
orphanage.
At dinner all of the family, except for the man from South
Africa, was quiet. They only talked in spurts.
David was nervous and knocked over his glass of wine.
David played the ôDead Marchö on the piano after dinner
and the butler thought it was strange.
Above him he heard china crashing and furniture falling
over.
Harry and The South African, Mr. Farr, were already there
after they ran upstairs to find that the door to the old manÆs
room was locked.
There was a ring at the door.
They broke the door down with a wooden bench.
Furniture was broken, china shattered. There was
definitely a struggle in the room.
Simeon was laying in a pool of blood, the rug beside him
had caught fire.
Part 3, Chapter 4.
The door bell rang again. They opened up the door to find
the police chief at the door.
The chief took charge and made everyone leave the room
and made them not touch anything.
Pilar picked something up and was reluctant to give it back. She
played ôDumbö.
It was a piece of rubber and wood. The Superintendent put them
into a bag and placed the bag into his pocket.
Part 3, Chapter 5.
This chapter starts off with Colonel Johnson and Hercule Poirot
talking about different poisoning murders and how they used to be
ôun-Englishö.
The Colonel said that there was less likely to be murders during
the Christmas season than any other time of the year.
The men were talking about Christmas and then the phone rang
and it was a case of murder. (Ironic)
The Colonel thought that the old man was not very liked in the
community.
But the case will still cause a big stirr.
The colonel asked Poirot if he would like to come along on the
case.
Poirot said that he would only assist the Superintendent and not
take over the case.
Part 3, Chapter 6.
The men were at the house and started to look for clues.
Poirot was famous in the area for solving a case of nicotine
poisoning a few years before.
Mr. LeeÆs throat was slit, jugular vein severed.
Mr. Lee had phoned the Superintendent earlier in the afternoon
and told him to go to Mr. LeeÆs house. The old man told the Super.
that the house had been robbed of many uncut diamonds. The old
man thought that the diamonds may be a practicle joke played by
someone in the house. The old man told the Super to return in a
hour and that the old man would have the case solved. The Super
returned in an hour and the old man was dead.
Part 3, Chapter 7.
Part 1, Chapter 7.
Part 1, Chapter 7.