REVIEW 2

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

-AGATHA CHRISTIE

The book, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by the name itself suggests that someone has plotted against a person on one of the largest distance covering train, THE ORIENT EXPRESS. This book is mainly expressed in English and has a blend of French language.

One of the famous detectives of England, Mr Hercule Poirot along with his helping friend, Mr Bouc boarded the luxurious train at Aleppo. The flavours of different nationalities like French, American, Italian, Britishers, Hungarian and also a couple from Poland at the dining car was more enriched than the flavour of the food. From the hospitality of Wagon Lit Conductor to the snowy environment of the train was fine until the incident at the midnight. When Mr Poirot came to know about the stabbings of the death person, Mr Ratchett in his room he was immediately down at his detective work. There he met the doctor, Dr Constantine who assisted him in the medical facts. When all the facts like dented watch, drug in the glass, a letter, etc., were placed in their minds, all three of them sat in the dining car cracking their heads to solve this case.

One by one all the 11 passengers and Wagon Lit Conductor were called to give their evidence about the smallest detail of their actions that night. Some of them, due to were various causes that night were forced to stay in their own compartments while others gave important details about the happenings at different intervals. Hearing to all those did not produce a clear image of convict. Mrs Hubbard screamed after discovering a knife in her sponge bag. Poirot and his two companions sat back on their chairs and put on their thinking cap. After doing this by closed eyes for about 1 hour, Poirot stood up and summoned everyone claiming that he knew the offender. Curious and surprised faces clearly showed everyone wanted to know the truth. Poirot disclosed each one’s secret as everyone was involved in the case. The facts showed were absolutely wrong. Each person was somehow related to the Ratchett, originally Casessiti who was not punished for the Armstrong murder case and they all took their revenge.