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A murder mystery by Agatha Christie
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I  would say that the book was above my grade level but I felt comfortable reading it. I understood what was happening if I stumbled across a word I didn't understand, I looked it up.

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How bad murder is and how sometimes you have to go with your gut then rely on what people tell you.

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The story was very suspenseful. I would say that this murder mystery wasn't gory but how it was written was very climatic.

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Description of place- The setting is first aboard a train headed to Stamboul and then Winter 1927 on a train from Stamboul to London called the Orient Express

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Poirot in know time is abord the orient express and this is when it all begens. Poirot is sleeping in his cabin when he hears a groan and cry the train stops and rings the bell. He thinks that the train is just now reaching the station but oh how he was wrong. The train had ran into a snow back and will be stuck there for days. Poirot wakes up and before anyone can even say good moring the find a dead body the body of Ratchett who had been stabed. Poirot hops right onto the case and finds the information needed to sole the case or so it seems all the right facts. What makes the cenario more chilling is that the murder is still on the train....

Poirot soon relizes that the information he gatherd from the people on the train didnt add up, someone was lying..... the question is who?

We soon learn why Ratchett was such a horrible person in the past and we get our first suspect Named Antonio Foscanelli but is rulled out. In the story the book continuely leads you up to a thirilling point with a dissapointing ending
When Poirot first sees Ratchett in the hotel restaurant he knows that Ratchett is evil. Poirot describes Ratchett as a wild animal  which proves to be somewhat true—Ratchett murdered a small child for money. Poirot also knows that Mary Debenham had a major role in the murder.
The only fact that Poirot if confident about is that Ratchett was stabbed twelve times the last evening. Poirot has three theories on the time he was stabbed at 1:15 supported by the evidence of the watch Mrs. Hubbard and Hildegarde Schmidt and agrees with the doctor's idea that the crime was committed later and the evidence was not real and was faked and that the crime was committed earlier and the evidence was also faked.

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Hercule Poirot MAIN CHARACTER - A retired Belgian police officer. Poirot is Christie's most famous detective and he has a short stature and a long curly mustache. He is smart and very observant and has a good moral judgment. The book is written from his perspective.

M.Bouc-- He formerly worked for the Belgian police force with Poirot. As he was traveling on the Orient Express, he asks Poirot to take the case I would say the M.Bouc was somewhat funny he always was frustrated with the case and confused by Poirot.

Dr. Constantine was the coroner aborad the Orient Express. He examines Ratchetts body and determines clues from Ratchetts body.

Ratchett- His real name is Cassetti, he had kidnapped and murdered the young Daisy Armstrong for money.

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There is the main character Hercule Poirot, he used to be a Belgian police officer but in the story he is retired. It starts of with him boarding a train which is called the Taures Express. Poirot soon catches a eye on two other passengers as they seemed to be acting different. The two other passengers were Mary Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot the two act as if they have never met but Poirot has his suspicious. Poirot arrives at his hotel in Stamboul when he recives a tellagram which is saying he must go back to London. Poirot decieds to wander about the hotel while waiting for his train back to london he stumbles into a old friend M.Bouc, he aranges a space for Poirot on the Orient Express. Sooner then later Poriot is in the dining room of the Tokatilian Hotel and he imideitonly lays his eyes on Ratchett and Hector McQueen. Poirot knows that Ratchett is a bad evil person as he harsly describes him to M.Bouc as an crazy animal. I think how Poirot descibed him is improtant fourshouing which had made me felt on edge.

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The setting is on a train that is stuck in a snow bank. It creates a closed-circle kind of setting which makes the ending more supprising in two ways the first way is that the reader doesnt expect that all of the characters on the train are involved in the murder it also makes the solving of the crime more manageable. The Armstrong family murders Ratchett because he escaped punishment in the U.S for murdering there doughter Daisy Armstrong for money. The passengers try to conceal there crime by lying to Poirot and make the scene seem like the murder boarded the train at Vincovici and escaped out Ratchetts window. They create the illusian that there was a enemy and a person that murderd Ratchett and quickly left. Agatha Christe shows the illusion that the book starts of as a typical murder.