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    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is a detective novel that takes place entirely on the Orient Express train. Famous detective Hercule Poirot boards the train and encounters a man named Ratchett who fears someone wants to kill him. That night, Ratchett is found murdered in his cabin, stabbed 12 times. Poirot investigates the crime and discovers Ratchett's real identity was Casetti, who had kidnapped and murdered a young American girl years prior. Poirot determines that all 12 other passengers in Ratchett's cabin had a connection to the murdered girl's family and a motive to kill him, and worked together to commit the crime.

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    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is a detective novel that takes place entirely on the Orient Express train. Famous detective Hercule Poirot boards the train and encounters a man named Ratchett who fears someone wants to kill him. That night, Ratchett is found murdered in his cabin, stabbed 12 times. Poirot investigates the crime and discovers Ratchett's real identity was Casetti, who had kidnapped and murdered a young American girl years prior. Poirot determines that all 12 other passengers in Ratchett's cabin had a connection to the murdered girl's family and a motive to kill him, and worked together to commit the crime.

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    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is a detective novel that takes place entirely on the Orient Express train. Famous detective Hercule Poirot boards the train and encounters a man named Ratchett who fears someone wants to kill him. That night, Ratchett is found murdered in his cabin, stabbed 12 times. Poirot investigates the crime and discovers Ratchett's real identity was Casetti, who had kidnapped and murdered a young American girl years prior. Poirot determines that all 12 other passengers in Ratchett's cabin had a connection to the murdered girl's family and a motive to kill him, and worked together to commit the crime.

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    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is a detective novel that takes place entirely on the Orient Express train. Famous detective Hercule Poirot boards the train and encounters a man named Ratchett who fears someone wants to kill him. That night, Ratchett is found murdered in his cabin, stabbed 12 times. Poirot investigates the crime and discovers Ratchett's real identity was Casetti, who had kidnapped and murdered a young American girl years prior. Poirot determines that all 12 other passengers in Ratchett's cabin had a connection to the murdered girl's family and a motive to kill him, and worked together to commit the crime.

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    Murder on the Orient Express

    Characters:
    Hercule Poirot - Belgian detective
    Lanfranco Casetti , alias Samuel Edward Ratchett - the
    killer of Daisy Armstrong; he was killed on the train
    Hector Willard MacQueen - Casetti's secretary
    Edward Henry Masterman - Casetti's valet
    Linda Arden , alias Caroline Martha Hubbord - the most
    famous actress of the New York stage ; Daisy Armstrong's
    grandmother
    Pierre Michel - the train conductor
    Princess Natalia Dragomiroff - Sonia Armstrong's
    grandmother
    Miss Greta Ohlsson - a Swedish missionary; she was Daisy
    Armstrong's nurse
    Miss mary Debenham - was Sonia Armstrong's secretary
    and Daisy Armstrong's governess
    Countess Andrenyi Helena - was Sonia Armstrong's sister
    Count Andrenyi - was Helena Andrenyi's husband
    Fraulein Hildegrade Schmidt - Princess Dragomiroff's maid
    Antonio Foscarelli - a car sales man; he was the Armstrong
    family's chauffeur
    Cyrus Hardman - a private detective
    Dr. Constantin - Greek doctor
    Xavier Bouc - Poirot's friend
    John Arbuthnot - Mary Debenham's love
    Plot:
    "Murder on the Orient Express" is a detective novel written
    by Agatha Christie.All the action of this novel was happening on
    a train, named "Simplon Orient Express". Hercule Poirot, the
    famous murder detective boards the Orient Express to Istanbul.
    He observed that the car, where the people could sleep, was
    unusually crowded. In the first night, Poirot met a man called
    Ratchett. Ratchett told Poirot that he received some
    threathening letters and asked him to help finding out who sent

    those letters, but Poirot declined Ratchett's offer because he


    didn't like his face. Ratchett was afraid that someone is going
    to kill him.
    That night Poirot woke up to the sound of scream. He
    realised that it came from the nearest compartiment which was
    occupied by Mr. Ratchett. Poirot went back to bed, but he
    couldn't sleep. When Poirot rang the conductor for mineral
    water he heard that Mrs. Hubbord told that someone was in her
    compartiment. In this time the train stopped because of a large
    snowdrift.
    The next day Poirot found out that Ratchett was murdered.
    He has been stabbed 12 times while he was sleeping.Bouc told
    Poirot to take the case, because he is so experienced in this.
    Poirot started to search clues in Ratchett's compartiment.
    He found a small pocket watch broken and stopped at 1:15am,
    a woman's handkerchief with an "H" on it, a pipe cleaner and a
    button from the conductor's uniform. All of these clues show
    that there were more murderers.
    Poirot reconstructed parts of a burnt letter, so he found
    out that Ratchett was from the United States and his real name
    was Casetti. Five years earlier Casetti kidnapped the 3 year-old
    American Daisy Armstrong. Even if the Armstrong family payde
    a huge sum of money, Casetti killed the girl. Sonia Armstrong,
    Daisy's mother was pregnant when she heard that Daisy was
    murdered and she died, too.
    Poirot discovered that everyone in the coach had a
    connection with the Armstrong family and had a reason to kill
    Ratchett. He proposes two possible solutions. The first solution
    is that a stranger boarded the train and murdered him. The
    second solution is that all 13 people in the coach were guilty.
    Poirot concedes Countess Andrenyi did not take part in murder,
    so there were 12 murderers, like the injuries in Ratchett's body.
    The second solution is correct.

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