We meet Hercule Poirot aboard Le Train Blue, bound for the French Riviera. What begins as an opulent voyage turns macabre when an American heiress is found dead of strangulation in her compartment and a famous ruby, ‘Heart of Fire’ is missing from her belongings. The intrigue deepens as Poirot discovers a web of suspicion involving fellow passengers: Ruth’s paramour, the Comte de la Roche; her estranged husband, Derek Kettering; Kettering’s spurned Parisian lover, the vengeful Mirelle; and an infamous jewel thief known as ‘The Marquis.’ With his legendary charm, élan, and powers of perception, Poirot navigates through the intricate puzzle to expose the elusive culprit who eludes all but Poirot’s discerning eye. This Warbler Classics edition includes a biographical note.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contents
One. The Man with the White Hair
Two. M. Le Marquis
Three. Heart of Fire
Four. On Curzon Street
Five. A Useful Gentleman
Six. Mirelle
Seven. Letters
Eight. Lady Tamplin Writes a Letter
Nine. An Offer Refused
Ten. On the Blue Train
Eleven. Murder
Twelve. At the Villa Marguerite
Thirteen. Van Aldin Gets a Telegram
Fourteen. Ada Mason’s Story
Fifteen. The Comte de la Roche
Sixteen. Poirot Discusses the Case
Seventeen. An Aristocratic Gentleman
Eighteen. Derek Lunches
Nineteen. An Unexpected Visitor
Twenty. Katherine Makes a Friend
Twenty-One. At the Tennis
Twenty-Two. M. Papopolous Breakfasts
Twenty-Three. A New Theory
Twenty-Four. Poirot Gives Advice
Twenty-Five. Defiance
Twenty-Six. A Warning
Twenty-Seven. Interview with Mirelle
Twenty-Eight. Poirot Plays the Squirrel
Twenty-Nine. A Letter from Home
Thirty. Miss Vinter Gives Judgment
Thirty-One. Mr. Aarons Lunches
Thirty-Two. Katherine and Poirot Compare Notes
Thirty-Three. A New Theory
Thirty-Four. The Blue Train Again
Thirty-Five. Explanations
Thirty-Six. By the Sea
About Agatha Christie
Circa l’autore
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world’s bestselling mystery writer. Her much-beloved Hercule Poirot features in more than forty short stories and twenty-two novels. Over the course of more than half a century ‘The Queen of Mystery’ wrote eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and several poetry collections. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in the English language and another billion in a hundred other languages.
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