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

by Agatha Christie

Five o’clock in the morning is an awkward time to board a train.

She was, he judged, the kind of young woman who could take care of herself with perfect ease wherever she went.

“Monsieur, in my experience when a man is in a position to have, as you say, enemies, then it does not usually resolve itself into one enemy only.”

Only a woman would stab like that.”

“Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.”

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

Criminals do not make mistakes of that kind nowadays.