Great Fire of London general; and more particularly in this business of the fire, laying it all upon him." Pepys was a senior official in the Navy Office by then, and he ascended the Tower of London on Sunday morning to view the fire from a turret. He recorded in his diary that the eastern gale had turned it into a conflagration. It had burned down several churches and, he estimated, 300 houses and reached the riverfront. The houses on London Bridge were burning. He took a boat to inspect the destruction around Pudding Lane at close range and describes a "lamentable" fire, "everybody
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