You have always been one of the most faithful and kindly of my readers, and I was therefore seriously perturbed when I received from you a word of criticism.
聖誕奇案
You complained that my murders were getting too refined-anaemic, in fact. You yearned for a "good violent murder with lots of blood." A murder where there was no doubt it's being murder!
So this is your special story-written for you. I hope it my please.
Gladys Spent, head housemaid(後二人出現在原著第三章——7僕人名單中，貴州人民出版社版本中被刪除)
影視改編
波洛聖誕探案記 Hercule Poirot's Christmas, 1995
電視電影【阿加莎名探波洛探案系列】(Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 6)之六，1995年，英國倫敦周末電視公司(LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION)出品。片長103分鐘。
導演：Edward Bennett
編劇：Clive Exton
領銜主演：
大衛·蘇柯特David Suchet(波洛Poirot)
休·福雷瑟Hugh Fraser(黑斯廷斯Hastings)
菲利普·傑克遜Philip Jackson(賈普Japp)
保琳·莫蘭Pauline Moran(李蒙小姐Miss Lemon)
主演：Mark Tandy(薩格登警監Sugden), Catherine Rabett(莉迪亞·李Lydia Lee), Simon Roberts(艾爾弗雷德·李Alfred Lee), Brian Gwaspari(哈里·李Harry Lee), Sasha Behar(皮拉爾·埃斯特拉瓦多斯Pilar Estravados), Eric Carte(喬治·李George Lee), Andree Bernard(馬格達倫·李Magdalene Lee), Ayd Khan Din(西德尼·霍伯里Horbury), Vernon Dobtcheff(西米恩·李Simeon Lee)
電視劇Petits meurtres en famille，2006
法國電視二台France 2出品，總長360分鐘，分為4集，無波洛
導演：Edwin Baily
編劇：Anne Giafferi, Murielle Magellan
主演：Robert Hossein, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini, Antoine Duléry, Grégori Derangère, Marie Bunel, Mathias Mlekuz, Marius Colucci, Jean-Marie Winling, Disiz La Peste, Frédérique Bel, Leticia Dolera, Alexis Michalik, Michèle Moretti, Nadia Barentin, Lisa Manili
