Saturday, July 4, 2009

MuRdeR oN the OrIent ExPress


I just love reading books 
So many say that I just read books for the sake of improving my English 
That’s not my prime aim in doing this 
I actually do it to know more and more stories just for amusement purpose and also tht I have an ample lot of time in bus 
My journey to clg involves around 2 hrs to go and another 2 hrs to come back to my house 
Nobody can at all expect me to read study books then 
So I prefer story books and im glad tht I can go for library to get all the nice ones


This story The MuRdeR oN the OrIent ExPress was written by AgAthA ChrIstIe in the year of 1933. She is considered to be the acknowledged queen of detective fiction.

Just after midnight, a snow light stopped the orient express in its tracks...the luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year….but by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one rather two solutions to the crime.

In the detective process Poirot along with M.Bouc and also Dr.Constantine thinks about various things connected to the crime scene.

Ten questions
1. The handkerchief marked with the initial H. Whose is it?
2. The pipe cleaner. Was it dropped by Colonel Arbuthnot? Or by someone else?
3. Who wore the scarlet kimono?
4. Who was the man or woman masquerading in wagon lit uniform?
5. Why do the hands of the watch point to 1.15?
6. Was the murder committed at that time?
7. Was it earlier?
8. Was it later?
9. Can we be sure that ratchet was stabbed by more than one person?
10. What other explanation of his wounds can there be?

The jury is composed of 12 people, there were 12 passengers- Ratchett was stabbed 12 times.

Characters:

Edward Masterman----Valet--Batman in the war
Antonio Foscarelli------Italian
Hector Macqueen------Secretary for Ratchett
Hilegrade Schmidt-----princess maid--cook
Greta Ohlsson---------nurse incharge of little daisy Armstrong
Mary Debenham------governess at Armstrong’s house
Hercule Poirot--------detective
Samuel Ratchett------Casetti-murdered person
Caroline Hubbard-----Linda Arden(actress)--Armstrong’s mother
Countess Andrenyi----innocent-- Mrs.Armstrong’s younger sister
Count Andrenyi------ her husband
Princess Dragomiroff--friend of Mrs.Armstrong
Colonel Arbuthnot----saved by Armstrong in war
Cyrus Hardman------American sleuth
Pierre Michel --------Wagon lit conductor--father of Sussanne



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