The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

Bound for the Riviera on Le Train Bleu, Hercule Poirot stumbles upon the body of an American heiress, murdered in her luxury compartment. But her secrets have never been more alive. "Masterly." (Times Literary Supplement) "A truly honorable thriller in the classic tradition. (New York Herald Tribune) Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress - bailing out of a doomed marriage - is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on. Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold .. When Miss Katherine Grey unexpectedly inherits a small fortune, she books the famous Blue Train for a trip to the French Riviera. Her new milieu includes millionaire Ruth Kettering, Ruth's estranged husband, a French mistress, and an inquisitive foreign man with an egg-shaped head and waxed moustache. But Nice is not so nice, for on arrival the gendarmerie asks Miss Grey to ID the strangled body of one of the pampered passengers--and for the great Hercule Poirot's help in solving the crime

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a Truly Honorable Thriller In The Classic Tradition.

Hercule Poirot tracht te ontdekken wie de mysterieuze moord gepleegd heeft op een schatrijke Amerikaanse in de exprestrein van Calais naar Nice. Although he is semiretired, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a baffling murder on a night train to the Mediterranean The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice... IT was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde.