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- "Murder on the Orient Express" is a classic detective novel by Agatha Christie, set aboard the famous train.
- The protagonist, Hercule Poirot, investigates the murder of an American man named Ratchett, who is revealed to be the notorious criminal Cassetti.
- The murder takes place while the train is immobilized by snow, leading Poirot to conclude the killer must be among the passengers.
- Each of the twelve passengers is connected to the Armstrong family, victims of Cassetti's past crime, and all participate in the murder.
- Poirot presents two solutions: one where an outsider committed the murder, and another where all passengers conspired together.
Christie - "Murder on the Orient Express"
"Murder on the Orient Express" is a novel written by the British author Agatha Christie. The novel was published in 1934.
The protagonist is the investigator Hercule Poirot, who travels on the famous Orient Express. Ratchett, an American gentleman from Istanbul and headed to London, is killed in the train.
The murder happens while the train is stuck in the snow so Poirot deduces that the killer is on the train.
On the train there are numerous characters, very different from each other.
But later, a slip of paper, found in the victim's compartment, indicates that Mr.
After analyzing the evidence we find out that the victim's real name is Cassetti, the organizer of the kidnapping of little Daisy Armstrong that ends with the death of 5 people. All passengers are interrogated but nothing is discovered. Later, the genius mind of Poirot manages to connect everything that happened: all 12 passengers on the train were linked to the Armstrong family, so each of them launched a dagger stroke to the victim so they explain the very different wounds. In the end it will be decided to give the police a different solution: that a stranger entered the train, stabbed Ratchett and then escaped during the night.
At the end of the book brings together all the passengers in the restaurant wagon where he exposes two theories: the first in which he says that the killer was an unknown person getting on the train to take revenge on Ratchett, in the second he says that the killers were all present in the hall and that they had killed Mr. Ratchett for revenge.
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