Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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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... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

Hercule Poirot: The Belgian sleuth illustrates the efficacy of his methods when he comes face-to-face with a murderer on an international express.
Monsieur Bouc: The Director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits -- shunts his friends Poirot onto the track of a discomfiting crime.
Dr. Stavros Constantine: Diagnoses that the right hand of the assassin did not know what the left hand was doing to the victim.
Mary Hermione Debenham: An English governess whose manner was as calm and unruffled as her coiffure.
Colonel Arbuthnot: His French was limited, but his verbal defense in his duel with the Belgian is adroit.
Hector Willard MacQueen: A secretary deluxe who speaks in many tongues
Samuel Edward Ratchett: This pseudophilanthropist was more malevolent than benevolent.
Antonio Foscarelli: Information gushed out of this swarthy, menacing Italian like the blood from the victim.
Edward Henry Masterman: A spare, neat, noncommunicative valet who has the haughtily disapproving face of the well-trained British servant.
Cyrus Bethman Hardman: An American commercial traveller who knows more than he tells and tells more than he knows.
Princess Natalia Dragomiroff: A Russian grande dame whose pearls were so large they were as improbable as her story.
Greta Ohlsson: This Swedish-trained nurse with the sheeplike face was the last suspect to see the victim alive.
Mrs. Caroline Martha Hubbard: Stereotype of an American matron -- she never stopped talking, but her acting spoke louder than her words.
Hildegarde Schmidt: Lady's maid to the Russian Princess, deeply involved in the murderous game of chemin de fer.
Count Rudolph Andrenyi: More attached to the Hungarian Embassy than it is to him.
Countess Elena Andrenyi: The youngest, prettiest snowbound suspect.
Pierre Michel: the French conductor of the Calais coach.

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First Sentence

It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria.

PART ONE: THE FACTS
1. An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express
2. The Tokatlian Hotel
3. Poirot Refuses a Case
4. A Cry in the Night
5. The Crime
6. A Woman
7. The Body
8. The Armstrong Kidnapping Case

PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE
1. The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor
2. The Evidence of the Secretary
3. The Evidence of the Valet
4. The Evidence of the American Lady
5. The Evidence of the Swedish Lady
6. The Evidence of the Russian Princess
7. The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi
8. The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot
9. The Evidence of Mr. Hardman
10. The Evidence of the Italian
11. The Evidence of Miss Debenham
12. The Evidence of the German Lady's Maid
13. Summary of the Passengers' Evidence
14. The Evidence of the Weapon
15. The Evidence of the Passengers' Luggage

PART THREE: HERCULE POIROT SITS BACK AND THINKS
1. Which of Them?
2. Ten Questions
3. Certain Suggestive Points
4. The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport
5. The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff
6. A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot
7. The Identity of Mary Debenham
8. Further Surprising Revelations
9. Poirot Propounds Two Solutions