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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery / Agatha Christie.

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (author.).

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"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again." --Amazon.

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  • ISBN: 9780062689665
  • ISBN: 0062689665
  • ISBN: 0062693662
  • ISBN: 9780062693662
  • ISBN: 0008268878
  • ISBN: 9780008268879
  • ISBN: 9780062838629
  • Physical Description: x, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st William Morrow edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Part one -- 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 -- Part two -- 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 passenger's evidence -- The evidence of the weapon -- The evidence of the passengers' luggage -- Part three -- Hercule Poirot sits back and thinks -- Which of them? -- Ten questions -- Certain suggestive points -- The grease spot on a Hungrian 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.

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Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
Orient Express (Express train) > Fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.

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