Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. Poirot’s reference to believing “six impossible things before breakfast” in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding is a quotation from chapter 5 of Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll when Alice says that she cannot believe in impossible things and the White Queen replies that she hasn’t had enough practice and that she, “always did it for half-an-hour a day.Dr Stillingfleet who plays a role in “The Dream” later appears in the full-length Hercule Poirot mystery, Third Girl.It was not published in the US although the stories it contains were published in other volumes there. It retailed in the UK for twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and comprises six cases. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the writer’s two most famous detectives. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1960 UK
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