She was smoking a cigarette in a long holder.
A tight-fitting little black coat and skirt, white satin blouse, small chic black toque perched at the fashionable outrageous angle. “The woman opposite him was a mere girl-twenty at a guess. I think what I liked most about Murder on the Orient Express was the panache/sass with which Christie writes her stories and portrays her characters, such as the character described below, On the plus side, this book counts towards THREE challenges! It counts towards my Mount TBR Reading Challenge (9/25) and counts as the first book for both the Back to the Classics Challenge (1/9) and The Classics Club (1/85)! I’ve always wondered how some people are able to read 100+ books in a year (and I may be wrong), but reading novels like this where you fly through the pages could have something to do with it! I would definitely love to go back and read some more of Christie’s works, but I doubt I will unless I participate in some sort of mystery challenge.
And it’s not like I spent the day in my room reading, I was out and about getting my haircut and running errands! It was very easy to read and I enjoyed the characters. Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels, owing no doubt to a combination of its romantic setting and the ingeniousness of its plot its non-exploitative reference to the sensational kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh only two years prior and a popular 1974 film adaptation, starring Albert Finney as Poirot - one of the few cinematic versions of a Christie work that met with the approval, however mild, of the author herself.It has been a long time since I read a (non-young adult fiction) book in a day, but this novel certainly sucked me in. Fortunately, the brilliant Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot is also on board, having booked the last available berth. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment.
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.
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