The mystery of the Blue Train A Hercule Poirot mystery
Book - 2007
Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress - bailing out of a doomed marriage - is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on. Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold ...
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- Genres
- Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Mystery fiction - Published
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New York :
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
2007.
©1928 - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 317 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781579126957
9780425130261
- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- 1 The Man with the White Hair 9
- 2 M. le Marquis 16
- 3 Heart of Fire 22
- 4 In Curzon Street 28
- 5 A Useful Gentleman 37
- 6 Mirelle 49
- 7 Letters 57
- 8 Lady Tamplin Writes a Letter 67
- 9 An Offer Refused 77
- 10 On the Blue Train 84
- 11 Murder 98
- 12 At the Villa Marguerite 113
- 13 Van Aldin Gets a Telegram 122
- 14 Ada Mason's Story 128
- 15 The Comte de la Roche 135
- 16 Poirot Discusses the Case 143
- 17 An Aristocratic Gentleman 142
- 18 Derek Lunches 163
- 19 An Unexpected Visitor 167
- 20 Katherine Makes a Friend 176
- 21 At the Tennis 183
- 22 M. Papopolous Breakfasts 195
- 23 A New Theory 202
- 24 Poirot Gives Advice 207
- 25 Defiance 215
- 26 A Warning 223
- 27 Interview with Mirelle 232
- 28 Poirot Plays the Squirrel 246
- 29 A Letter from Home 259
- 30 Miss Viner Gives Judgment 271
- 31 Mr. Aarons Lunches 281
- 32 Katherine and Poirot Compare Notes 286
- 33 A New Theory 293
- 34 The Blue Train Again 297
- 35 Explanations 303
- 36 By the Sea 315.