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The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)

Agatha Christie

Start date: September 1, 2025

Finish date: September 30, 2025

Why we're reading this: The next Poirot novel in our challenge
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Dec 28, 2019 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: agatha-christie

An enjoyable reread. The exotic Blue Train to Cannes. A spoilt millionaires daughter Ruth Kettering with her jewels is murdered. The letter K plays a role in the clues. Kettering, Katherine, Knighton is it one of them. Ruth’s aristocratic bounder husband Derek is broke and has a greedy demanding mistress in Mirelle the dancer. Ruth’s wealthy father employs the world’s greatest detective Hercule Poirot to solve the murder.

Great characterizations of all the cameo characters. Lady Tamplin and her ...more

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Jul 20, 2017 John Frankham rated it liked it

Shelves: crime-detective

A below-average Hercule Poirot whodunnit. Somehow the structure lacks coherence, and many characters are stock characters, lacking conviction. Perhaps because Poirot has no permanent side-kick to talk to, so he dashes from discussion to discussion. Just nearer 3* than 4*. Scenes in St. Mary Mead, London, Paris, Lyons, Nice, but little sense or atmosphere of place.

58 pages introducing us to the characters, 10 pages on the Blue Train from Victoria to Nice (with a murder on board, of course, and Po ...more

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Aug 20, 2016 Tania rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, european, agatha-christie

An heiress is found murdered on the blue train. Luckily, Hercule Poirot is there to solve the mystery. Not one of the very best, but very enjoyable all the same.

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