Murder on the Orient Express

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Agatha Christie, F &J-F Miniac Riviere: Murder on the Orient Express (2003, HarperCollins)

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Langue : English

Publié 4 octobre 2003 par HarperCollins.

ISBN :
978-0-06-059998-0
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E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder on the Orient Express; "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year. But by morning there is one passenger less. A ‘respectable American gentleman’ lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside… Hercule Poirot is also aboard, having arrived in the nick of time to claim a second-class compartment -- and the most astounding case of his illustrious career. Regarding chronology: Agatha Christie seems not much concerned in the course of her books with their relationship to each other. It is why the Marples and the Poirots may be ready in any order, really, with pleasure. However, the …

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Revisiter les mêmes rails

J'ai commencé 2026 en me disant que plus de nouveauté en tous arts me ferait du bien ; avec l'état actuel du monde et mon sentiment de dépossession de mon être, j'ai rapidement changé d'avis, et je me recherche par mon passé. Si je me garde Les Misérables version intégrale pour lorsque mes cours seront plus préparés, un souvenir de jeunesse d'un film se déroulant dans un train m'est revenu, un film vu quand j'avais 13 ans et dont j'avais lu l'oeuvre en classe, merci l'anniversaire de la mort d'Agatha Christie!

Je ne suis pas un grand lecture de roman policier non pas par élitisme, mais plus par... circonstances ? temps ? Disons que c'est difficile de lire pour le plaisir en début de carrière! Du peu que j'ai lu du genre, je sais qu'il y a une règle cruciale dans le genre : un roman policier réussi en …

Neat puzzle

Murder on the Orient Express is certainly a decent "whodunnit", although at this point the conclusion of the story is so well-known that I can't really judge how well it was executed from the viewpoint of a reader without that prior knowledge. It's a quick, fluent read once you get used to Christie's vocabulary and style of writing, which is (unsurprisingly) rather antiquated in some passages. I was a little surprised at the untranslated French interjections and phrases; people who don't know at least a little French might stumble upon them.

All in all I found it to be a great book to read for fun in 2 days. Some of the details and the general way the pieces of the puzzle fit together ended up being pretty satisfying and less one-dimensional than I remembered from whatever movie adaptation I watched ages ago.