The Mystery of the Blue Train (eBook)
Agatha Christie's Queen of Mystery, The Mystery of the Blue Train, has the ever-vigilant Hercule Poirot caught up in a robbery and a horrific murder aboard a luxury train.
When the opulent Blue Train pulls into Nice, a guard tries to rouse the placid Ruth Kettering. However, she will never wake up again because she was slain by a strong blow that left her face nearly unrecognizable. Not only that, but her priceless rubies are gone. The main suspect is Derek, Ruth's divorced husband. Poirot, however, is not persuaded and puts on a spooky recreation of the trip, replete with the murderer riding along.
"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep." —Agatha Christie (The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot)
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About the Author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.