What part did the beautiful foreign dancer play? Also, if you have read enough of Agatha Christie, at least one of the following things will definitely be true. Whose hand was it that struck her down? When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. Poirot offers to go with her on the Blue Train. While Poirot still has things to do, the closed circle nature of this crime feels all the more evident and I do feel there are chapters in the middle of the book that seem to drag as though the investigation is being stretched out. This is the only major work by Agatha Christie in which the UK first edition carries no copyright or publication date. [2][3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)[4] and the US edition at $2.00. But even Hercule Poirot, for it is he, does not guess how soon he will be called upon to unravel and complicated and intricate crime when the Blue Train steams in Nice the following morning and it is discovered that murder has been done.". The blurb of the first edition (which is carried on both the back of the jacket and opposite the title page) reads:"Since the beginning of history, jewels have exercised a baneful spell. 1973, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 286 pp, 1974, Dodd, Mead and Company (As part of the, 2007, Poirot Facsimile Edition (Facsimile of 1928 UK First Edition), HarperCollins, 5 March 2007, Hardback, This page was last edited on 28 March 2023, at 23:20. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Robert C Trube and Bob on Books with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. The Times Literary Supplement gave a more positive reaction to the book than Christie herself in its issue of 3 May 1928. I actually rather liked the idea of Katherine the former companion who was left a huge bequest by her last employer and who is now travelling. [3] The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. During the trains journey Ruths body is discovered in her compartment having been strangled and the jewel has vanished. Vipula is a culture and travel blogger from Los Angeles, California. Grey may also have had enemies as she had recently inherited a very large sum of money and greedy relatives had suddenly taken an interest in her. And after the arrival of Katherine and Poirot at the Tamplins' villa, Katherine is also attacked. Three chapters were given different names: chapter nine (eleven in the book) was called Something Good instead of Murder, chapter twenty-six (twenty-eight in the book) was called Poirot hedges instead of Poirot plays the Squirrel and chapter twenty-eight (chapter thirty in the book) was called Katherine's letters instead of Miss Viner gives judgement. Format: Hardcover. Christie's dedication in the book reads: "To the two distinguished members of the O.F.D. This novel features the first description of a village named St. Mary Mead. The novel was televised in 2006 as a special episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, and was aired by ITV on 1 January starring David Suchet as Poirot, Roger Lloyd-Pack as Inspector Caux, James D'Arcy as Derek Kettering, Lindsay Duncan as Lady Tamplin, Alice Eve as Lenox and Elliott Gould as Rufus Van Aldin. Agatha Christie's beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night trainwith all of the suspects aboard. In the film, Ruth's lover is traveling on the train with her, and they are both fleeing her husband. The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928[1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
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