Constantine, ask Poirot to investigate the murder so that when the snow finally melts and the train arrives in the next city, they can present the case to the Yugoslavian police, already neatly solved.Ī few facts are known: Mr. After breakfast, he is summoned to talk with M. The third day, Poirot finds that the Orient Express is stuck in a snowdrift and may be unable to move for days. Poirot is briefly woken in the night by a loud groan from the neighboring compartment, which happens to be Mr. Bouc switches compartments so that Poirot can rest in first class for the duration of the trip. Ratchett suspects that someone will try to kill him soon, and he wants to hire Poirot to investigate that possibility, but Poirot refuses because he has a bad impression of Mr.

On the second day of travel, a wealthy American named Mr. Poirot tries to buy a first-class ticket, only to discover that all the first-class compartments are sold out, which is very unusual for the wintertime when few people are traveling. Bouc, director of the train company in charge of the Orient Express, who also happens to be boarding the same train.

Poirot reaches his hotel in Istanbul, only to receive a telegram instructing him to immediately return to London on that night’s train, the Simplon Orient Express. Agatha Christie wrote an exceptional tale that has a few red herrings, making the process of figuring out who done the deed challenging!What an exceptional and talented author she was to write a compelling mystery, yet never revealing too much so that the ending came as a complete surprise! The only hard part for me in reading the book were the small phrases written in French that I didn’t know, which made it a little harder to figure out what was happening in a of the couple scenes.In the dead of winter, investigator Hercule Poirot boards a train to Istanbul, Turkey, after solving a crime for an outpost of the French army stationed in Aleppo, Syria. I was very glad that the ending was not revealed to me. Since some friends wouldn’t tell me how the movie ended, I decided to read the book then watch the older version of the movie. There was a movie released with many well-known actors and actresses in 1974. Title: Murder on the Orient Express (A Hercule Poirot Mystery)Author: Agatha Christie Pages: 288Year: 2011Publisher: William Morrow PaperbackMy rating 5 out of 5 stars.I never read the book until I learned that a movie was coming out later this year based on the novel.

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