https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv Analysing Crime Fiction through Murder on the Orient Express en-us 2018-05-30 05:38:23 UTC 2018-06-07 00:26:30 UTC hello@padlet.com yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264435538 Crime Fiction - Conventions]]> 2018-05-30 05:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264435538 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264436902 A murder.
A detective.
A train.
A snowdrift.
Who done it?]]> 2018-05-30 05:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264436902 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264436929 Not immediate.
Victim introduced alive.
Murder occurs overnight.]]> 2018-05-30 05:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264436929 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264457624 Conducted by Hercule Poirot; private investigator.
Part 2 of book dedicated to interviews.
Heavily relies on Poirot's intuition.]]> 2018-05-30 07:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264457624 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264457642 Less obvious clues revealed by Poirot/ woven into story]]> 2018-05-30 07:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264457642 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264457664 Brutality of murder.
Multiple stabbings.
Intensity of Armstrong case.
Victim was a murderer.]]> 2018-05-30 07:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264457664 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264458328 Classic Closed Circle & The Hostile World]]> 2018-05-30 07:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264458328 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264458342 The detective.
The victim.
The client.
The murderers.]]> 2018-05-30 07:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264458342 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264458406 Tight Construction.
Foreshadowing.
Detail and Tense Atmosphere.]]> 2018-05-30 07:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264458406 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264695556 More obvious clues given to audience/
woven into story]]> 2018-05-31 05:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264695556 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264695757 A woman in a red kimono.
With golden embroidered dragons.
Tall and slim.]]> 2018-05-31 05:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264695757 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264696164 Not a known passenger.
Cannot have left train.
Seen on night of murder.]]> 2018-05-31 05:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264696164 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264775150 Why is it smudged?
Who smudged it?
What is it hiding?]]> 2018-05-31 13:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264775150 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264779310 Found in Mrs. Hubbard's sponge-bag.]]> 2018-05-31 13:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/264779310 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265148825 Reportedly used by murderer to frame Mrs. Hubbard.]]> 2018-06-02 13:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265148825 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265268402 Clever.
Adept logical thinker.
Notices discrete clues during interviews.
Realistic.]]> 2018-06-04 01:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265268402 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265268529 Used alias Ratchett.
Revealed to be Cassetti; villainous man tied to Armstrong Case.]]> 2018-06-04 01:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265268529 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265269653 Average intelligence.
Often confused by detective.
Wants to know; Who done it?]]> 2018-06-04 01:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265269653 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265270370 Matching alibis.
Executed elaborately planned murder.
Left ingenious false clues.]]> 2018-06-04 01:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265270370 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265270662 Limited to Poirot (detective), M. Bouc (client), and passengers.]]> 2018-06-04 02:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265270662 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265270820 Victim revealed to be villainous.
Most significant events occurred at night in midst of a blizzard.]]> 2018-06-04 02:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265270820 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265272484 All clues lead to conclusion, in multi-man murder.]]> 2018-06-04 02:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265272484 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265272826 Some clues aren't directly addressed until solution.]]> 2018-06-04 02:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265272826 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265273609 Three distinct Parts:
1. The Facts
2. The Evidence
3. Hercule Poirot Sits Back and Thinks]]> 2018-06-04 02:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265273609 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265273966 Introduction.
Meeting Poirot.
Learning how he got onto Orient Express.
The murder occurs overnight.]]> 2018-06-04 02:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265273966 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265274306 Poirot (and M. Bouc) interview passengers.
Obtain alibis and evidence.
Poirot find possible motives.]]> 2018-06-04 02:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265274306 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265274561 Hercule ponders evidence.
Reveals his two solutions to ALL passengers.]]> 2018-06-04 02:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265274561 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265615647 Amused.
Intrigued.
Mysterious.
Sarcastic.]]> 2018-06-05 12:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265615647 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265620408 At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled. She sat very upright. Round her neck was a collar of very large pearls which, improbable though it seemed, were real. Her hands were covered with rings. Her sable coat was pushed back on her shoulders. A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.]]> 2018-06-05 12:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265620408 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265623180 Victim sustained 12 stabs wounds.
Twelve people in a jury.
Twelve murderers.]]> 2018-06-05 12:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265623180 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265625269 Her small toad-like face look even yellower than the day before. She was certainly ugly, and yet, like the toad, she had eyes like jewels, dark and imperious, revealing latent energy and an intellectual force that could be felt at once.]]> 2018-06-05 12:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265625269 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265625494 “Are you really a detective, then?”
“At your service, Madame.”
She asked curiously:
"I thought there were no detectives on the train when it passed through Yugo-Slavia - not until one got to Italy.”
“I am not a Yugo-Slavian detective, Madame. I am an international detective.”
“I belong to the world, Madame,” said Poirot dramatically. He went on, “I work mainly in London. You speak English?” he added in that language.
"I speak a leetle, yes.”
Her accent was charming.]]> 2018-06-05 12:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265625494 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628751 It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It consisted of a kitchen and dining-car, a sleeping car and two local coaches.]]> 2018-06-05 13:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628751 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628834 The cold was bitter, and though the platform itself was protected, heavy snow was falling outside.]]> 2018-06-05 13:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628834 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628878 “The train has stopped. We have run into a snowdrift. Heaven knows how long we shall be here.”]]> 2018-06-05 13:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628878 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628928 Do not forget that the snow has upset all the murderer’s original plan. Let us imagine, for a little minute, that there is no snow, that the train proceeded on its normal course.]]> 2018-06-05 13:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265628928 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265630442 Quite regular.
Enough to understand events, not too detailed.
Some contextual clues.]]> 2018-06-05 13:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265630442 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265630692 Hanging on the handle of the door that gave access to the next compartment was a large-checkered sponge-bag. Below it on the floor, just where it had fallen from Mrs. Hubbard’s hand, was a straight-bladed dagger - a cheap affair, sham Oriental with an embossed hilt and a tapering blade. The blade was stained with patches of what looked like rust.

Makes audience believe Mrs. Hubbard was framed.]]> 2018-06-05 13:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265630692 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265631113 He looked thoughtfully at the door in front of him, then, lifting off the sponge-bag, he tried the handle. The door did not budge. About a foot above the handle was the door bolt. Poirot drew back and tried again, but still the door remained fast.

Discrete clue; door bolt is above the handle. Mrs. Hubbard's compartment.

]]> 2018-06-05 13:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265631113 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265632115 “The bolt is just underneath the handle - the sponge-bag masks it. You could not see from where you were lying whether the bolt was turned or not.”

Poirot's observation; in compartment No. 12]]> 2018-06-05 13:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265632115 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265633813 “...Mrs. Hubbard had told us that lying in bed she had been unable to see whether the communicating door was bolted or not, and so had asked Miss Ohlsson to see for her. Now - though her statement would have been perfectly true if she had been occupying compartment No. 2, 4, 12 or any even number, in which the bolt is directly under the handle of the door - in the uneven numbers such as compartment No. 3 the bolt is well above the handle and could not therefore be masked by the sponge-bag in the least…”

Poirot explaining how he knew Mrs. Hubbard was lying.]]> 2018-06-05 13:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265633813 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265791874 Ominous conversation overheard by Poirot.
Between Miss Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot.
Occurred on the Taurus Express (before the Orient).]]> 2018-06-06 04:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265791874 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793111 How does the text reinforce or challenge the conventions of the genre it is written in?]]> 2018-06-06 05:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793111 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793228 Agatha Christie reinforces many of the conventions of crime fiction.]]> 2018-06-06 05:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793228 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793272 Agatha Christie challenges a few crime fiction conventions.]]> 2018-06-06 05:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793272 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793498 Complicated plot lines.
Many contextual clues.
Requires attentive audience.]]> 2018-06-06 05:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793498 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793663 There is a crime, investigation, and clues.]]> 2018-06-06 05:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793663 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793760 Classical Closed Circle.
The Hostile World.]]> 2018-06-06 05:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793760 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793860 Detective. Victim. Client. Murderer(s).]]> 2018-06-06 05:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793860 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793935 Poirot is not necessarily the "good guy".]]> 2018-06-06 05:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265793935 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265794072 Written in third person.
Audience never directly hears Poirot's thoughts.]]> 2018-06-06 05:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265794072 yzzamin_baylas https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265795645 Some more obvious than others.
Lead Poirot to his two conclusions.]]> 2018-06-06 05:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/yzzamin_baylas/yo09nu4vpnqv/wish/265795645