At its heart is not the search for truth and justice alone, it also deals with miscarriage of justice, and its twist at the end is as ingenious as it is convincing. It is also one of her most unusual works. The book has never grown out of fashion since and is one of the most enduring of Christie’s whole canon. In the book, Christie combines her skills at a locked room mystery (in this case a locked train compartment, and a train stuck in the snow) with her love for travelling, and different cultures. She was a literary phenomenon that has created one of the most enduring sleuths of all times, pedantic, vain Belgian Hercule Poirot, famous for his outsized moustache and his unparalleled use of the little grey cells. I would recommend this book to anyone of 12 and above who enjoys detective stories and I will certainly be reading more Agatha Christie novels in future.When Murder on the Orient Express was published in 1934, Agatha Christie is already the Queen of Crime. I really enjoyed the surprising twist at the end too. The book was incredibly well plotted, and left you admiring the writer’s skill in showing how clever her detective was to uncover the mystery. I thought that it was interesting to read an old fashioned, classic detective novel. The head of the train company Monsieur Bouc, who is also travelling on the train, asks Poirot to investigate and so the story continues with Poirot interviewing all the passengers travelling in the same carriage as Ratchett – and having to work out which statements are true and which are false. When Ratchett asks why, Poirot says it is because he doesn’t like his face!ĭuring the night, Poirot hears strange noises from other compartments in the carriage and next morning he discovers that Ratchett has been murdered in his compartment, by being stabbed twelve times. However, Poirot refuses despite the man (named Ratchett) offering him large amounts of money. The next day on the Orient Express, the same man requests that Poirot takes on his case as he says that his life is in danger. At the start of the book Poirot is at a hotel in Turkey, after finishing a case, and is sitting down to dinner when he notices an American tourist who he observes has the eyes of an animal and an air of evil about him.
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