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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN num: 9780425200452
ISBN number: 0425200450
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: August 31, 2004
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 28887
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Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer -- in case he or she decides to strike again.
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Ms. Christie had a clean, crisp writing style that suits this genre very well. There are no flowery prose to be found in-between the covers of this mystery. It has been over 30 years since I read 'Murder on the Orient Express' while in high school and I still clearly remember the unusual outcome. But despite knowing the surprise ending, revisiting this classic and observing Ms. Christie's remarkable ability to place clues and red-herrings throughout made me appreciate her talents even more. As usual, another great, entertaining read by a master of the whodunit.
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"Murder on the Orient Express" is a true classic of a murder mystery. Ms. Christie chose Hercule Poirot to try to solve this puzzling mystery.
Someone has been killed. The someone is not so nice. The murder took place on The Orient Express, a famous European train. The train is, at the moment, stranded in a snow drift. The cast of suspects is varied and unusual. The solution to the mystery is pure Agatha Christie.
I have, also, seen two or three different video versions of this mystery. The book seems to have some advantages over the video versions. Still, it is obvious that this mystery weaves a spell over its fans.
This may be one of the best murder mysteries of all time, but I have never been thrilled with it. Things get too confusing in parts. Also, Hercule's accent and unusual character sometimes adds to the confusion. Finally, it does take effort to follow how the murder must have happened. I wish it were possible to make this story flow a bit better.
Read the book and watch any of the video versions. I do like Hercule's fi9nal resolution. And, that says something about us humans.
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Not my normal type of book. But I was at my aunts and she did not have many books to choose from. Once I started I could not put it down. The story was good, a detective book. With clues from earlier chapters you can try and solve the crime your self.
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Agatha Christie is one of, if not the, most prolific mystery authors to date. With a handful of captivating protagonists, ingenious plot devices, and unusual settings and cases, she managed to single-handedly establish the core of the mystery genre. And this book that I am about to review is one of her most famous works.
When Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express he has no idea that he is about to descend into one of the most baffling cases of his career. After he makes eye-contact with a passenger by the name of Ratchett, he knows immediately that this man is no good, possibly even downright evil. With his sentiments echoed by everyone on board, it is not so much a surprise when Ratchett comes to him with an interesting proposition. He is being targeted for death by a private enemy and would like to enlist the detective's help in the detection of the culprit. M. Poirot refuses the case and thinks no more of it until the unfortunate Mr. Ratchett is found murdered. But as the case progresses, it comes to light that the circumstances are not so unfortunate as "Ratchett" was most certainly the despicable man everyone thought him. Armed with the knowledge that the murderer must still be on the train and the certainty that all the passengers are more than happy to see Ratchett dead, Hercule Poirot must sift through a handful of clues to track down a murderer.
I myself love the work of Agatha Christie, although some might find her stories a bit dated and outlandish. Sometimes the leaps of logic are a bit hard to follow, but that's what makes Detective Poirot such a formidable crime-solver. And the ending is superb. A must read for anyone who wants to acquaint themselves with classic mystery!
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Originally published in 1933, this story has some historical references that will be of interest to historians, but fortunately have only minor relevance to the main track of the plot. These references are to ethnic and national personalities and biases as well as the British dominance of India and Iraq.
In this case, M. Poirot is traveling on the Orient Express, the train that connects Western Europe with the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. He boards in Syria along with a cosmopolitan group of fellow passengers. Since the group contains such a variety of people the comment is made at the time that it us unusual for so many nationalities to be aboard the train in the winter season.
A murder is committed, and the odd point is that the man was stabbed 12 times. Given the nature of the wounds, it appears that some of them were caused by a man and the others by a woman. Since the train has been stopped by a severe snowstorm, the murder had to be committed by someone in the same sleeping car.
M. Poirot is called on to solve the case and as he interviews all possible perpetrators, he finds that everyone has an alibi, each person has others that can vouch for their innocence. Therefore, after the very first pass through the interviews of the 12 people, the only conclusion is that it is impossible for any of them to have murdered the man. However, M. Poirot is able to determine that the victim was a vicious criminal who had kidnapped and murdered a young girl. Although it was known that he committed that crime and no doubt other similar ones, the kidnapper was able to escape from the clutches of the law.
While this knowledge does not help pin down the murderer, when told of the victim's true nature, all twelve of the people express joy at his death. Some express it more emphatically than others. After a second round of questioning, M. Poirot starts extracting additional facts and of course he is led to the path of identifying the killer(s).
This is Agatha Christie at her best, the story at very first leads to an impossible end, although the path there deposits many clues to the solution. Once M. Poirot starts the second round of questioning, the clues begin to pop up rather quickly and the structure of the murder plot becomes evident.
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