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Murder on the Orient Express / Murder at the Vicarage /
ABC Murders / 4:50 From Paddington
by Agatha Christie.
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Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
October 18, 2008.
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Murder at the Vicarage
ABC Murders
What one recalls vividly, after several decades and more - not half a century yet, perhaps - of having read most of Christie, including this, is about how a good detective reads about the alphabetical order of three murders happening, manages to guess the next, and solves which was the real one, thereby solving who was behind it all - alphabetical twist being merely to throw dust in the eye, so to speak.
If one recalls correctly, D was real, E was prevented, and case solved.
December 27, 2020.
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4:50 From Paddington
4:50 From Paddington
An elderly woman on the train sees a man in another train running parallel throttling a woman to death, while he is oblivious to her watching - his back is to the window. She is thouroughly traumatised, and reports it as soon as she can at a railway station. But there is no dead woman on any train or a dead body dumped near any tracks anywhere possible where a parallel running train at that time could have stopped. And yet - she is sure, she saw the murder taking place, was not mistaken, dreaming of hallucinating. Fortunately she has an intelligent friend, another elderly woman, the fraile white haired Miss Marple.
October 18, 2008.
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