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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, 2019 Kavita rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery, yugoslavia, golden-age-mystery

I was reading Murder on the Orient Express just before a train journey. I got into a rickety old train from Paris to go to a rickety old town called Sarreguemines in the dead of winter. Blithely, I got into the train and guess what, it stopped midway because of heavy snow. The lights went out and the friendly man sitting next to me suddenly became sinister. I still remember thinking about the damn story throughout the journey. That was almost a decade ago but remains my most uncomfortable train ...more

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Jan 01, 2021 Jazzy Lemon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, english-authors

Hercule Poirot puts his little grey cells to the test in this mystery!

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Dec 09, 2018 Tracey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: poirot, agatha-christie

Marvellous! I really enjoyed this, even though I knew the solution (from the most recent film). It was lovely to read Christie weave all the clues in. And as an English woman, I found Poirot's comments on the nature of the English rather amusing! ...more

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Dec 27, 2018 Frances rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery-series

Even knowing the outcome, this was a fun read, watching Christie work her usual magic. Throw in a luxury sleeper train and a 'thirties vibe and I'm in mystery heaven. ...more

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