Agatha
Christie – Murder on the orient express
Just to
make a little summary of the protagonist of the book, Hércules Poirot, he’s a
detective from Belgium, that came to England to seek shelter after the World
War 1, because of the World War 1, he didn’t have a job anymore, but on
England, he have the opportunity to work in a murder case (The first book of
Agatha Christie, the mysterious affair at Styles), he work in there with a
chief inspector of Scotland yard name Japp, and with his loyal partner Arthur
Hasting, The Highlights of Poirot that he was a pretty good detective, he have
a really good skill to observe pretty well even the little detail, at the end
he was pretty helpful to solve the case, eventually when time start to pass,
Scotland yard start to asking to Poirot for help more often, because he was
really good (He was like a Sherlock Holmes, just, more human).
Now the
case of the Murder on the orient express: Poirot after solve an important case
on Siria (Because he came to be world wide famous), he was going back to
London, because he was needed there, when he was on a hotel in Istanbul he
tried to reserve a seat on the orient express, that was going to take him to
London, but the train was full, but suddenly the owner of the train appears and
recognize Poirot, he told to him, that he was coming with him in the train, and
Poirot was able to arrive the train (The train was a luxury train, so it was
only for 12 people), when Poirot was on the train, he meet a man name “Rachett”
that tried to hired Poirot, because Rachett knew that someone was gonna try to
kill him because he was a sinner man with plenty of money, Poirot refuse to
accept the work offer, because he didn’t like the attitude of Rachett, that
night, Poirot heard a scream from the Mr. Rachett rooms, but a voice in French
said: It’s ok, I just have a nightmare;
later the woman in the room in front of the Poirot Room, ask for help to
the attendant because she said that she saw the death in his room, just staring
at her, Poirot woke up again because the noisy woman, and asked for a bottle of
water, then he went to sleep again, when the morning came up Mr. Rachett was
dead, by twelve wound stabs.
To explain
this a little bit better, there were 13 people on the train 14 with Poirot (I
forget to said that the train have a room that two people could sleep in there,
the rest of the room, were for only one), Poirot start to interrogate everyone
on the train, because the train was stuck by a stack of ice that was on the
trail, Poirot was working on this murder case with a doctor, gynecologist, was
the only doctor on the train, so Poirot make question to him about how the victim
was murder, the plot start to
development, and to make this short, the doctor tried to deceive Poirot many
times, like the wounds stabs, according to the doctor, were 15, but Poirot,
with a lot of experience with murder case, he knew that was only 12, and that
the murder wasn’t made just from one person, and later Poirot discover that
Mr.Rachett wasn’t just a normal rich guy, his real name was Cassetti, and he
five years ago on the United States, kidnapped a three years old girl, named
Daisy Armstrong, and even know that theirs parents have paid for the rescue, he
still murder the child, Poirot start to find out more things, that the people
on the train, EVERYONE, except from himself and the owner, were related somehow
with the Armstrong family (The Armstrong family died, the mother of sadness,
and the father too after their child were brutally murder): this is the name of
the people in the train
·
Hector Willard MacQueen,
Ratchett/Cassetti's secretary, devoted to Sonia Armstrong; MacQueen's father
was the district attorney for the kidnapping case. He knew from his father the
details of Cassetti's escape from justice and intended to kill Ratchett.
·
Edward Henry Masterman,
Ratchett/Cassetti's valet, was Colonel Armstrong's batman during the
war and later his valet who also acted as butler to the Armstrong household.
·
Colonel Arbuthnot was Colonel
Armstrong's comrade and best friend;
·
Mrs. Hubbard in actuality
is Linda Arden (maiden name Goldenberg), the most famous tragic actress of the
New York stage, and was Sonia Armstrong's mother and Daisy's grandmother;
·
Countess Andrenyi (née Helena
Goldenberg) was Sonia Armstrong's sister;
·
Count Andryeni was the
husband of Helena Andrenyi;
·
Princess Natalia Dragomiroff was
Sonia Armstrong's godmother as she was a friend of her mother;
·
Miss Mary Debenham was Sonia
Armstrong's secretary and Daisy Armstrong's governess;
·
Fräulein Hildegarde Schmidt, Princess
Dragomiroff's maid, was the Armstrong family's cook;
·
Antonio Foscarelli, a car salesman
based in Chicago, was the Armstrong family's chauffeur;
·
Miss Greta Ohlsson, a Swedish
missionary, was Daisy Armstrong's nurse;
·
Pierre Michel, the train
conductor, was the father of Susanne, the Armstrong's nursemaid who committed
suicide;
·
Cyrus Hardman, a private
detective ostensibly retained as a bodyguard by Ratchett/Cassetti, was a
policeman in love with Susanne.
When Poirot
find out all this things, everything make sense to him (He knew the case of the
girl pretty well), and he discover, that all those people, join to make justice
to girl, to murder Mr. Cassetti, all the twelve wounds, were by 12 persons,
Poirot at 1 day that the machine to take out the stack of ice comes, discover
everything and talk with those people, those people told Poirot that they did,
what they did, because of justice, and that guy didn’t deserve to live after
what his done, Poirot start to argue with they about they were right, that the
girl needed justice but with the Laws hand, not theirs, eventually Poirot was
thinking all the night if he should to turn they to the police because of what
they done or not, morning comes, and Poirot exit the train and start talking
with the police (the police came right next together with the machine to take
out the ice, because the murder was reported) Poirot give him the evidence to
the police, but he told them, that the killer arrive on the train on a stop
they made on Belgrade, and leave the train right after they were stuck, so Poirot
didn’t turn in the people, and Poirot just walk away from the police and the
people of the train, but crying, because he knew he did the right thing, but
not as the way as he would like it, as the Laws way.
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