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Summary: Murder on the Orient Express by:Agatha Christy
Review: Suspensful novel that keeps you on the edge of your seat. So many suspects and yet none of them seem to be the murderer. Hercule Poroit keeps you guessing till the end. A must read novel that you won't regret you read.
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Summary: A classic in Mystery.
Review: If you are a mystery reader, this is a classic must-read. The ending is strong, and unexpected. The characters are well developed. The pace of the book is never slow. The book is very interesting, and with every chapter's end you want to go on. It really makes you think and guess a lot, and the ending is very surprising. This is a MUST for detective story lovers.
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Summary: An excellent book!
Review: This is the greatest book on Earth! I read it 3 times! The setting of the story was on a Parisian train called the Orient Expresss. There were lots of characters, but you come to know them over time. One important plot was when one person on the train was murdered. He was stabbed 12 times in the chest.
I absolutely loved this book! It was a five star, best seller to me!
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Summary: A CHRISTIE FOUNDATION
Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is a foundation upon which Agatha Christie's reputation rests. It is the famous story of the murder on the train loaded full of suspects. It has been made into several films, and I have enjoyed reding this book several times.
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Summary: An outstanding read
Review: This is the greatest mystery book I ever read. It has a magical ends, it seems unbelievable, but actually followed tips really well.
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Summary: Well, at least the "athmosphere" was great
Review: I didn't like the way this story ended because it left me unsatisfied somehow and A.C used very different plot here than she usually "weaves her webs". This is the most famous A.C book with the Murder of Roger Acroyd, Ten Little Indians and The Mousetrap(and other stories). After all, my personal favorite book have still remained after reading these "famous" books through. And this magnificent book is very, very exciting TOWARDS ZERO which is I suppose so, terribly overlooked and forgotten masterpiece. If you want to have a real murder thriller, where the murderer is throughly evil, intelligent & mad, then you should read this "Towards Zero". You propably won't regret reading it. Read some reviews of it and GET EXCITED.
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Summary: THE CLASSIC CLASSIC MYSTERY
Review: As a mystery writer with my debut novel in its initial release, I've been thinking quite a bit recently about MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, the first adult mystery I read--too many years ago. I thought then, and I still think today, that MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is the perfect classic mystery. Christie created a murder in a stranded railroad car--a murder her sleuth Hercule Poirot must solve. She has a classic collection of suspects, and a crime supposedly impossible to commit. Poirot, of course, solves the crime, and I still admire this book decades after I first read it.
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Summary: An Entertaining Mystery
Review: When Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express he is surpised by the loud diversity of people on the train. From a Russian Princess to an English governess the train is filled with different classes, and nationalities. THe last thing he expects is a murder to take place. But when it dose, only he can find the killer. As Poirot shifts through the clues and interviews every member on the train he finds out the case is connected to a kidnapping mystery that took place in America year ago. Thus complicating things ever futhur. Can he solve the case? Or will the killer slip between his fingers.When I saw the book assigned to me on my summer Junior year British Literature reading list I was happy to actually get to read a decent book. And when I read it I was swept up in the mystery of things, trying to find the real killer myself. Poirot is an interesting and clever charecter. This was my first Agatha Christie book but it won't be my last. Enjoy!
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Summary: Clue overlooked by Poirot?
Review: I will not discuss the book which is, in my opinion, one of Agatha's best. I would like to mention a clue that seems to be overlooked by Poirot. This message does not reveal who the murderer is, but you should not read it unless you already read Orient Express, because it might spoil you the fun. The clue is about compartments in the railroad car. As you know, the murderer(s) wanted to book up all the compartments in the Istanbul - Calais car, but the compartment number 1 has been booked months before, by the company's director, Mr. Buck (Poirot ended in that compartment later). Now that implicates that the compartments were allocated sequentially. Mr. Rechet got the compartment number 2, his valet Mr. Masterman got the bed number 4 (the first available bed in the second class) while his secretary Mr. McQueen got the bed number 6 in the next second class compartment. All that implicates some kind of the plot, since the car was obviously empty (except for Mr. Buck) before Rechet and his escort booked their tickets, and then all the sudden the whole bunch came. Let us proceed. In his statement Mr. McQueen states that the valet always traveled second class, but he (McQueen) usually traveled first class, so that his employer, Mr. Rechet could use McQueen's compartment to store his own luggage. But on this occasion all the first class compartments were booked, so McQueen had to travel second class. Now that is a highly suspicious statement - Rechet got number 2, and McQueen and Masterman got the first two class 2 compartments. It seems like first class compartments 3 (etc.) and the complete second class was empty when Mr. Rechet's ticket was bought and that McQueen did not want to be in the compartment number 3, next to Rechet's, for some reasons of his own. He also did not want to share the compartment with Masterman, since they could probably have booked beds number 4 and 5. All that strongly points to some kind of the conspiracy engineered by McQueen who, as a secretary, was in charge of booking tickets.
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Summary: A dramatic reading of a great mystery novel
Review: One problem with audiobooks is the dialogue. Very often an author does not supply the "he said/she said" before or after each quotation and the listener is often at a loss as to who is speaking. David Suchet, the ultimate Poirot, gets around this by using a different voice for each character. He had accomplished this in his reading of the complete "Death on the Nile" for Audio Partners and he does it again with a superlative <Murder on the Orient Express> for that same label. This set was designed for a release to coincide with the CBS dramatization of the classic whodunit, but Audio Partners need not have bothered. That telecast was an utter disaster with a lusterless Poirot, a cast that for the most part could scarcely create a character, and an updating of the decor (among other ludicrous changes) to the present. So the older film with its starry cast can rest unchallenged; but the public is entitled to enjoy the original and this audiobook is just the ticket. Christie uses the usual "closed environment" setting (an island, a cruiser, a train) to give us a small number of suspects; and then she hits us with Poirot's "gather everyone together while I explain the solution" scene. One of the gimmicks of this novel is that Poirot comes up with two solutions! But for the sake of those very few who do not know the ending, I will say no more. And even for those who do, there is always the joy of Suchet's reading. I have the CD edition, a format that makes it difficult to find where you last left off since each full chapter is usually given a single track number. Here Audio Partners has thoughtfully broken each chapter into several tracks so you pretty much can get back to where you were with a minimum of trouble. Tapes, of course, stay where they are--and are much better for use in autos. So by all means choose this as your next purchase, and do not forget the "Death on the Nile" offering while you are about it.
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