The Crime of the East-Express train

the Crime of the East-Express train ( Murder one the East Express train in the original British edition) is a Detective novel written by Agatha Christie, published in 1934.

Summary

Newcomer of Raising on board " Taurus-Express" , Hercule Poirot must change station with Istanbul. With the hotel Péra-De luxe hotel, it meets his old friend Mr. Bouc, and obtains, by its intermediary, a place in a sleeping car of the East-Express train in departure for Paris and Calais. After the departure of Belgrade at night the wild murder of Mr. Ratchett is made in the express train launched at full speed. A snowstorm, in full heart of Yugoslavia, blocks the train, which will make it possible to the famous detective to only solve this incredible business and what will disturb the plans prepared so well of the assassin.

Characters

  • Hercule Poirot, celebrates Belgian detective .

  • Mr. Bouc, the director of line of the Company of the sleeping cars
  • Mr. Constantine, Greek doctor .

These the last two characters are not suspect because it did not sleep in the same sleeping car as the victim, Istanbul-Calais .

  • Mr. Ratchett, the victim, antipathetic character with heavy secrecies.

  • Hector MacQueen, secretary of the victim.
  • the Colonel Arbuthnot, of the the British Indies
  • Edward Masterman, servant of the victim, and her companion of cabin Antonio Foscarelli, exuberant Italian business man
  • Mary Debenham, controlling English newcomer of Baghdad by the " Taurus-Express" and his/her partner of cabin Greta Ohlsson, Swedish missionary
  • the Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Diplomatic Hungarian, and its wife the countess Elena Andrenyi
  • the old Russian princess Natalia Dragomiroff
  • controlling It German the latter, Hildegarde Schmidt
  • Mrs Caroline Hubbard, expansive American widow
  • Cyrus Hardman, salesman texan of ribbons of typewriters
  • Pierre Michel, the driver French of the sleeping car of Calais

Comments

the Crime of the East-Express train is one of the novels of Agatha Christie having had the most success on the world scene.

Adaptations

External bond

  • Agatha Christie, its life, its work

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