Murder on the Orient Express

Hardcover, 288 pages

English language

Published Aug. 19, 2022 by Антология.

ISBN:
978-5-9909212-9-0
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4 stars (1 review)

«Убийство в „Восточном экспрессе“» (1934) — одно из наиболее загадочных и виртуозных произведений Агаты Кристи. Действие романа разворачивается в трансъевропейском экспрессе, следующем из Стамбула в Кале. Попав в сильный снегопад, машинист вынужден остановить поезд в чистом поле. Таким образом все оказываются в снежном плену, между тем как в одном из купе обнаруживают тело убитого пассажира. За расследование этого убийства берётся Эркюль Пуаро.

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4 stars

Murder on the Orient Express is certainly a decent "whodunnit", although at this point the conclusion of the story is so well-known that I can't really judge how well it was executed from the viewpoint of a reader without that prior knowledge. It's a quick, fluent read once you get used to Christie's vocabulary and style of writing, which is (unsurprisingly) rather antiquated in some passages. I was a little surprised at the untranslated French interjections and phrases; people who don't know at least a little French might stumble upon them.

All in all I found it to be a great book to read for fun in 2 days. Some of the details and the general way the pieces of the puzzle fit together ended up being pretty satisfying and less one-dimensional than I remembered from whatever movie adaptation I watched ages ago.

Subjects

  • Agatha Christie
  • Private investigator
  • P.I.
  • Hercule Poirot
  • Detective
  • Murder
  • Mystery
  • Juvenile
  • Humour
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Stories
  • Private investigators
  • Private investigators in fiction
  • Travel
  • Railroad
  • Trains
  • Express trains
  • Orient Express
  • Orient Express (Express train)
  • Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Railroad stories
  • Railroad travel
  • Investigation
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • English Detective and mystery stories
  • English fiction