THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN
UK publication: 1928 (Collins)
US publication: 1928 (Dodd, Mead)
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Genre: Novel
Plot summary and comments: The first Poirot novel to be told in the third person, with no Watson-like narrator. An American millionaire's daughter, Miss Van Aldin, is found strangled in her compartment on the Blue Train (running from Paris to Nice), with a fabulous ruby stolen. Poirot is traveling to the French Riviera with his English valet, George, on the same train, and is drawn into the case. He is assisted by one of Christie's adventurous young ladies, Katherine Grey. The plot is an expansion of a short story ("The Plymouth Express") which appeared in the collection The Under Dog in 1951 in the USA, but not until 1974 in the UK (in the volume Poirot's Early Cases). Christie apparently hated the book, but perhaps undeservedly.
Courtesey of: http://stout.physics.ucla.edu/%7eyoder/mystery/christie.html
::READERS REVIEWS::
"Agatha Christie has the rare talent at protraying human character and illustrating with a shroud of spell binding mystery. This novel is a superb example of accurate identifiable characters amid a cloak of deep mystery.
Hercule Poirot unravels the web of intrigue slowly and the finale is a wonderful feeling of recognition and the juicy understanding of the author's prowess.This book is great reading, buy it, pick it up, read it through and then smile as did i when it was over. weep because your enjoyment and suspense cannot continue as Poirot wraps up the ending.Do not weep, there is the 'Sittaford Mystery' and 'A Murder is Announced' and 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' and 'Curtain' and the very excellent 'Mysterious Affair at Style' to read."
"Okay now I'm only 13, but I have to say that I love Agatha Christie's books. This one, was very very good. It was interesting throughout the whole book, and the end was very surprising, you'll never guess it. It was a pretty easy read, but it is still a must read, and I really recommend it to anyone. "
"This one doesnot fall in Christie's usual category but nevertheless a very good mystery. Highly recommended."
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