The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie, Laura Thompson (Afterword)

Overview

Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard.

When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But the wealthy American socialite will never wake again, for a brutal blow has killed her, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her famously valuable rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, and so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey—with all of the suspected murderers aboard. A VINTAGE CLASSIC MYSTERY

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593685365
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/02/2024
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	25,502
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

AGATHA CHRISTIE (1890–1976) was born in Devon, England. She wrote more than 70 books and 150 short stories, as well as works for stage and screen. Her novel And Then There Were None is considered the world's bestselling mystery novel, and her play The Mousetrap is the longest-running play in London theater history.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

Editorial Reviews

A truly honorable thriller in the classic tradition.

Masterly.

Times Literary Supplement

A truly honorable thriller in the classic tradition.

New York Herald Tribune

Nominally Poirot has retired, but retirement means no more to him than it does to a prima donna. Let a good murder mystery come within his ken, and he just can’t be kept out of it.”

1928 New York Times Books Review

The reader will not be disappointed when the distinguished Belgian on psychological grounds declines to suspect the arrested husband and…lands his fish to the surprise of everyone.”

Times Literary Supplement (London)