Monday, March 21, 2016

Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie


Hercule Poirot, a detective with sharp mind tries to unfold the mystery of a murder that takes place inside a train. Unlike an usual murder investigation, here the detective as limited avenues to assess the case as the train is cut off from cities and has come to halt due to heavy snow. 


Agatha Christie has described the details of the case and the one by one interviews of the possible suspects. The characters of the novels have their own peculiarity, but they have a commonality which is discovered by the detective. On the basis of the interviews and the evidences available Hercule Poirot draws several possible logical conclusions which end up in two possible explanations of the murder. 



The book is a good classical novel

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