An aging millionaire has invited his relatives to Gorston Hall for a holiday getaway of fun and games. He really plans to give them what they deserve, starting with a few minor alterations to his will. But it is the old man who winds up getting killed. This whodunnit calls for the detective work of Hercule Poirot. How dreadful that the holidays should begin with a wailing scream and a deathly gurgle Never has Poirot's mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in "Hercule Poirot's Christmas".