Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized EditionHarper Collins, 28 oct. 2003 - 336 pagini THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!
“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”
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.
“What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?”—New York Times
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Cuprins
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The Tokatlian Hotel | 16 |
Poirot Refuses a Case | 27 |
A Cry In The Night | 37 |
The Crime | 43 |
A Woman? | 58 |
The Body | 68 |
The Armstrong Kidnapping Case | 82 |
The Evidence of the Italian | 168 |
The Evidence of Miss Debenham | 173 |
The Evidence of the German Ladys Maid | 180 |
Summary of the Passengers Evidence | 189 |
The Evidence of the Weapon | 199 |
The Evidence of the Passengers Luggage | 209 |
Part Three Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks | 229 |
Which of Them? | 231 |
Part Two The Evidence | 87 |
The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor | 89 |
The Evidence of the Secretary | 98 |
The Evidence of the Valet | 105 |
The Evidence of the American Lady | 113 |
The Evidence of the Swedish Lady | 124 |
The Evidence of the Russian Princess | 131 |
The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi | 141 |
The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot | 148 |
The Evidence of Mr Hardman | 159 |
Ten Questions | 241 |
Certain Suggestive Points | 248 |
The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport | 260 |
The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff | 269 |
A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot | 276 |
The Identity of Mary Debenham | 281 |
Further Surprising Revelations | 287 |
Poirot Propounds Two Solutions | 296 |
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