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Christie, Agatha,
1890-1976.
Murder on the Orient Express :
a Hercule Poirot mystery /
Agatha Christie.
First William Morrow hardcover ed.
New York :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins,
2017.
©1934.
vi, 265 pages ;
22 cm.
Hercule Poirot ;
10
This title was previously published as Murder in the Calais Coach.
The Facts. The important passenger on the Taurus Express -- The Tokatlian Hotel -- Poirot refuses a case -- A cry in the night -- The crime -- A woman? -- The body -- The Armstrong kidnapping case -- The Evidence. The evidence of the wagon lit conductor -- The evidence of the secretary -- The evidence of the valet -- The evidence of the American lady -- The evidence of the Swedish lady -- The evidence of the Russian princess -- The evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi -- The evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot -- The evidence of Mr. Hardman -- The evidence of the Italian -- The evidence of Miss Debenham -- The evidence of the German lady's maid -- Summary of the passengers' evidence -- The evidence of the weapon -- The evidence of the passengers' luggage -- Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks. Which of them? -- Ten questions -- Certain suggestive points -- The grease spot on a Hungarian passport -- The christian name of Princess Dragomiroff -- A second interview with Colonel Arbuthnot -- The identity of Mary Debenham -- Further surprising revelations -- Poirot propounds two solutions.
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.
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Poirot, Hercule
(Fictitious character)
Fiction.
Private investigators
England
Fiction.
Private investigators
Fiction.
Orient Express (Express train)
Fiction.
England
suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Hercule Poirot ;
10.