M U R D E R  O N  T H E  O R I E N T  E X P R E S S

 

First Published: 1934

 

Features: Hercule Poirot.

 

Blurb: Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

 

With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime ...

 

Dedication: To M.E.L.M. Arpachiya, 1933

    

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Contents

 

PART I
 The Facts
01 An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express
02 The Tokatlian Hotel
03 Poirot Refuses a Case
04 A Cry in the Night
05 The Crime
06 A Woman?
07 The Body
08 The Armstrong Kidnapping Case
 
PART II
 The Evidence
01 The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor
02 The Evidence of the Secretary
03 The Evidence of the Valet
04 The Evidence of the American Lady
05 The Evidence of the Swedish Lady
06 The Evidence of the Russian Princess
07 The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi
08 The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot
09 The Evidence of Mr Hardman
10 The Evidence of the Italian
11 The Evidence of Mary 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 III
 Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks
01 Which of Them?
02 Ten Questions
03 Certain Suggestive Points
04 The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport
05 The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff
06 A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot
07 The Identity of Mary Debenham
08 Further Surprising Revelations
09 Poirot Propounds Two Solutions