Great Fire of London both recorded the events and their own reactions day by day, and made great efforts to keep themselves informed of what was happening all over the City and beyond. After two rainy summers in 1664 and 1665, London had lain under an exceptional drought since November 1665, and the wooden buildings were tinder-dry after the long hot summer of 1666. A fire broke out at Thomas Farriner's bakery in Pudding Lane a little after midnight on Sunday 2 September. The family was trapped upstairs but managed to climb from an upstairs window to the house next door, except for a
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" was adapted for radio by BBC Radio 4 on 25 December 2004 with John Moffatt in the role of Poirot. "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" and "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" have been turned into Anime, on the series "Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple" (2004), episode 19 and 20. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 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. It is the