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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

Agatha Christie

Start date: December 1, 2018

Finish date: December 31, 2018

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Mar 12, 2021 Grisette rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: my-kind-of-detective-thriller, 3rd-pers-narration

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4.5 stars

⏳ [6th re-read in 2022, 1st proper review, rating maintained]

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🔹️ Number of death/s: 1
🔹️ Motive for the crime: Revenge
🔹️ Method of crime: Knife stabbings
🔹️ Main location: Yugoslavia
🔹️ Notable element: Weather acting as a deus ex machina element to derail a well rehearsed plan. And of course, fate was decidedly against them as Poirot suddenly appeared on that train on that night 😲.
🔹️ Book type: Novel, H. Poirot
🔹️ Reference to SH: -

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This is vintage Agatha ...more

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Oct 29, 2016 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-mystery-fiction, british-golden-age-mysteries, mystery-series, audiobooks

My favorite Poirot so far. My favorite Miss Marple novel is 4:50 from Paddington, so there must be something about trains. :)

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Nov 14, 2020 Yorky Caz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audible

Excellent - at the moment I don't have the capacity to read a book so audible is working really well. ...more

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Feb 01, 2025 Ruskoley rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, 1930s

One of the more popular books of Christie's work with Poirot. Its kind of like her Roger Ackroyd novel - another experiment in flipping things around a bit. Overall, I thought it was OK. I mean, readers should definitely read it - its a very fast read and its important to know for all the cultural and literary references to it. But at heart, the novel is not really more than novelty. ...more

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