Murder on the Orient Express

by Christie, Agatha

• ISBN13: 9780425173756
• ISBN10: 0425173755
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Berkley

Summary

What more can a mystery addict desire than a much-loathed murder victim found aboard the luxurious Orient Express with multiple stab wounds, thirteen likely suspects, an incomparably brilliant detective in Hercule Poirot, and the most ingenious crime ever conceived?

Author Biography

Dame Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections, nineteen plays-one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history-and five nonfiction books including her autobiography. In addition, she wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Two of the characters she created, the ingenious Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Jane Marple, became world-famous detectives, immortalized on television by David Suchet and Joan Hickson. Agatha Christie achieved Britain's highest honor when she was made a Dame of the British Empire. She died in 1976.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters	p. vii
The Facts
An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express	p. 3
The Tokatlian Hotel	p. 13
Poirot Refuses a Case	p. 21
A Cry in the Night	p. 29
The Crime	p. 33
A Woman	p. 45
The Body	p. 53
The Armstrong Kidnapping Case	p. 63
The Evidence
The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor	p. 69
The Evidence of the Secretary	p. 76
The Evidence of the Valet	p. 81
The Evidence of the American Lady	p. 87
The Evidence of the Swedish Lady	p. 95
The Evidence of the Russian Princess	p. 101
The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi	p. 108
The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot	p. 114
The Evidence of Mr. Hardman	p. 123
The Evidence of the Italian	p. 130
The Evidence of Miss Debenham	p. 134
The Evidence of the German Lady's-maid	p. 140
Summary of the Passengers' Evidence	p. 147
The Evidence of the Weapon	p. 155
The Evidence of the Passengers' Luggage	p. 163
Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks
Which of Them?	p. 181
Ten Questions	p. 189
Certain Suggestive Points	p. 195
The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport	p. 204
The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff	p. 211
A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot	p. 216
The Identity of Mary Debenham	p. 220
Further Surprising Revelations	p. 224
Poirot Propounds Two Solutions	p. 231
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