BLOGWORDS – Friday 24 May 2019 – FIRST LINE FRIDAY – MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by AGATHA CHRISTIE

BLOGWORDS – Friday 24 May 2019 – FIRST LINE FRIDAY – MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by AGATHA CHRISTIE
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FIRST LINE FRIDAY – MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by AGATHA CHRISTIE

 

Welcome to First Line Fridays, hosted by Hoarding Books!!!

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THE BLURB

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.

Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

 

THE AUTHOR

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Dame Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.

 

 

 

 

 

THE FIRST LINE

It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.

 

MY THOUGHTS

Like most of Dame Christie’s stories that I’ve read, it was so long ago I don’t remember much about it—except how much I liked it!

 

 

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