agatha christie's poirot the mystery of the blue train

Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. The plot of this novel is based on the 1923 Poirot short story ‘The Plymouth Express’ and features the first mention and description of the fictional village St Mary Mead where Christie’s later Miss Marple stories would be set. Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Old fashioned murder investigations resume – with a potential jewel thief, a rich woman dead on a train and a cigarette case with the letter K engraved on it. Taking place just after the real crime and in such a closed space, the atmosphere is eerily evoked.

The reenactment – like a reconstruction of the crime and the events is eerily evoked. In fact there are a range of strange characters with dubious backgrounds that Poirot finds it hard to understand at first. Ruth’s maid is another strange character on the train, mixed up in the events of that day. Ruth’s husband was on the train but he claims not to have seen Ruth. This valuable stone had been given to her by her father. This might not be the famous Orient Express but it’s a journey which ends in murder all the same.Ī leisurely journey by train to the French Riviera might sound nice but poor Ruth is found dead – strangled in her carriage with her ruby “Heart of fire’ missing. Train travel Agatha Christie style? Maybe keep one eye open when you sleep and always look over your shoulder when awake as murders appear to take place on her trains.

Agatha christie's poirot the mystery of the blue train