by Agatha Christie, 1933
I LOVE Hercule Poirot!!!
Who stabbed Ratchett 12 times on the train called the Orient Express? Turns out all 12 of the 13 passengers took a turn! Except for the one who had the biggest motive, the sister of Daisy Armstrong’s mother, who Ratchett (Cassetti) kidnapped and murdered but was “acquitted on some technical inaccuracy.” Poirot figures this all out after interviewing them all one by one while the train is snowbound.
Amazing! And, because the man Ratchett certainly deserved to die, he (Poirot) comes up with another story of how he was murdered so that none of the 12 people (who knew and/or worked for the Armstrong’s in America) would ever be suspected. Great Book! (I would like to read “A Caribbean Mystery” by Agatha Christie.)