Characters in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Fastidious and comfort-loving, he is talked into a country Christmas only by the promise of modern central heating, then applies his methodical reasoning to the puzzle around him.

  Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, Mystery of the Blue Train, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder on the Orient Express

• Miss Jane Marple

  Unassuming and observant, she reads people and events through the lens of human nature and village parallels.

• Miss Lemon

  Her presence in the revised story replaces Captain Hastings from the earlier "Baghdad Chest" version.

  Also in The Labours of Hercules, The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

• Raymond West

  His visit to the eccentric mansion with a literary critic friend frames the story before the murder.

• Miss Greenshaw

  Last of her line, she draws up a will and discusses her family shortly before she is killed.