Reflection- Murder on the Orient Express by- Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is best known for her detective novels.

 I enjoyed reading Murder on the Orient Express which is considered one of the most ingenious stories ever written.

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, a passenger lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

The plot unravels- everyone on the train was connected to the Armstrong family. The annoying American woman, Mrs. Hubbard, is Linda Arden herself, the famous actress and mother of Daisy Armstrong's mother. At the end, Poirot proposes two possible solutions. In the first one, an outsider got on the train when it was stopped and killed Ratchett. The other, though, is the truth: the passengers were all in on it together in order to get justice for little Daisy Armstrong.

M. Bouc and Dr. Constantine choose to present the first, false solution to the police when the train starts moving again. This shows that they think Ratchett was not so much murdered as he was brought to justice.

The story is written in such an interesting and mysterious way that  till the last chapter I could not guess who would be the murderer and couldn’t contain my excitement that I read the last pages first.:)

Komal Thakur