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Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
To M.E.L.M. Arpachiya, 1933
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Part One: The Facts
1. An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express
2. The Tokatlian Hotel
3. Poirot Refuses a Case
4. A Cry in the Night
5. The Crime
6. A Woman?
7. The Body
8. The Armstrong Kidnapping Case
Part Two: The Evidence
1. The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor
2. The Evidence of the Secretary
3. The Evidence of the Valet
4. The Evidence of the American Lady
5. The Evidence of the Swedish Lady
6. The Evidence of the Russian Princess
7. The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi
8. The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot
9. The Evidence of Mr. Hardman
10. The Evidence of the Italian
11. The Evidence of Miss 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 Three: Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks
1. Which of Them?
2. Ten Questions
3. Certain Suggestive Points
4. The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport
5. The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff
6. A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot
7. The Identity of Mary Debenham
8. Further Surprising Revelations
9. Poirot Propounds Two Solutions
About the Author
Other Books by Agatha Christie
Copyright
About the Publisher
PART ONE
THE FACTS
One
AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER ON THE TAURUS EXPRESS
It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches.
By the step leading up into the sleeping car stood a young French lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small lean man, muffled up to the ears, of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward curled moustache.
It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully. Graceful phrases fell from his lips in polished French. Not that he knew what it was all about. There had been rumours, of course, as there always were in such cases. The General—his General’s—temper had grown worse and worse. And then there had come this Belgian stranger—all the way from England, it seemed. There had been a week—a week of curious tensity. And then certain things had happened. A very distinguished officer ............
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