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  1. Felling Silly

    Felling Silly edited the summary of Murder on the Orient Express Sunday, September 27 2009.

    • this is a realy awesome book you would love it

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  2. PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls edited the series of Murder on the Orient Express Tuesday, September 15 2009.

    • Edited this book in the series: Hercule Poirot MysteryPoirot book 109
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  3. PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls edited the table of contents of Murder on the Orient Express Tuesday, September 15 2009.

    • 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

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  4. PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls edited the table of contents of Murder on the Orient Express Tuesday, September 15 2009.

    • 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

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  5. PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls edited the characters of Murder on the Orient Express Tuesday, September 15 2009.

      • reordered the characters.
    • Edited the description of Hercule Poirot: The DetectiveBelgian sleuth illustrates the efficacy of his methods when he comes face-to-face with a murderer on an international express.
    • Edited the description of Monsieur Bouc: The DirectorDirector of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits -- shunts his friends Poirot onto the track of a discomfiting crime.
    • Edited the description of Dr. Stavros Constantine: The DoctorDiagnoses that the right hand of the assassin did not know what the left hand was doing to the victim.
    • Edited the description of Mary Hermione Debenham: a tall, dark, young British woman, workingAn English governess whose manner was as calm and unruffled as a governess in Baghdad.her coiffure.
    • Edited the description of Colonel Arbuthnot: a tall British army officer returning from India.His French was limited, but his verbal defense in his duel with the Belgian is adroit.
    • Edited the description of Hector Willard MacQueen: a tall, handsome, young American, the victim'sA secretary and translator.deluxe who speaks in many tongues
    • Edited the description of Samuel Edward Ratchett: The Victim, an unsavoury-looking man with a dark secret.This pseudophilanthropist was more malevolent than benevolent.
    • Edited the description of Antonio Foscarelli: a portly and exuberantInformation gushed out of this swarthy, menacing Italian businessman.like the blood from the victim.
    • Edited the description of Edward Henry Masterman: A spare, neat, noncommunicative valet who has the victim'shaughtily disapproving face of the well-trained British valet.servant.
    • Edited the description of Cyrus Bethman Hardman: a largeAn American commercial traveller who knows more than he tells and gregarious American typewriter ribbon salesman.tells more than he knows.
    • Edited the description of Princess Natalia Dragomiroff: an elderlyA Russian noblewoman andgrande dame.dame whose pearls were so large they were as improbable as her story.
    • Edited the description of Greta Ohlsson: a middle-aged blonde Swedish missionary returning home for a vacation.This Swedish-trained nurse with the sheeplike face was the last suspect to see the victim alive.
    • Edited the description of Mrs. Caroline Martha Hubbard: a plump, elderly, very excitableStereotype of an American returning from a visit tomatron -- she never stopped talking, but her acting spoke louder than her daughter, a teacher in Baghdad.words.
    • Edited the description of Hildegarde Schmidt: a middle-aged German woman, Princess Dragomiroff's lady's maid.Lady's maid to the Russian Princess, deeply involved in the murderous game of chemin de fer.
    • Edited the description of Count Rudolph Andrenyi: a tall, darkMore attached to the Hungarian diplomat with English manner and clothing, travellingEmbassy than it is to France.him.
    • Edited the description of Countess Elena Andrenyi: the Count's pale young wife.The youngest, prettiest snowbound suspect.
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  6. Grygazol

    Grygazol edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Murder on the Orient Express Tuesday, September 15 2009.

    • Added: The title says it all.
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  7. Orchid (Offline)

    Orchid (Offline) edited the series of Murder on the Orient Express Sunday, August 23 2009.

    • Added this book in the series: Hercule Poirot Mystery book 10 (Primary series)
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  8. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the description of Murder on the Orient Express Saturday, August 1 2009.

    • 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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  9. Timothy Gray

    Timothy Gray approved Ron A’s request to change the title of Murder on the Orient Express Wednesday, July 29 2009.

    Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie Audio Mystery)Express
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  10. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the first sentence of Murder on the Orient Express Wednesday, July 29 2009.

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