![]() ![]() ![]() It's up to the Belgian to work out which of his fellow travellers is a murderer.Ĭhristie's second novel is the first to star her lesser-known detectives Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley. Poirot books passage on the train only for a fellow passenger to be found dead the next day. ![]() It wasn't to Raymond Chandler's taste – "only a halfwit could guess it", he said – but thanks partly to the 1974 film adaptation, which won an Oscar for Ingrid Bergman, this could be Christie's best-known mystery. She provides the reader with red herrings galore before Marple works out whodunnit. I've never known a case in real life." Christie wrote in her foreword to this Miss Marple mystery that she wanted to do a variation on a well-known theme, with "a highly orthodox and conventional library" but "a wildly improbable and highly sensational body". "Bodies are always being found in libraries in books. "You've been dreaming, Dolly," Colonel Bantry tells his wife. ![]()
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