Murder on the Orient Express : a Hercule Poirot mystery

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976, author.

Book 2011

While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the br...

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Murder Investigation Fiction

Orient Express (Express train) Fiction

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Fiction

Private investigators England Fiction

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Detective and mystery fiction

Part of a Series:

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Hercule Poirot mysteries Hercule Poirot Mysteries Hercule Poirot Mysteries ; 10

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ISBN:

9781579126230
9780063375833
9780062838629
9780062693662
9780062689665
9780062424754
9780062073501
9780062073495
9780007234400
0762102551
0671523686
0553030000
0425200450
0425173755
039608575X
0062689665
0062073508
0062073494
0061002747

Edition:

First Harper paperback [edition]

Description:

265 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Notes:

Publisher, pagination, and printing dates may vary
Originally published as: Murder in the Calais coach. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1933

Contents:

Cast of characters
The facts: An 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

Control Number:

2597304

Other Authors:

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Murder on the Orient Express

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