The Mystery of the Blue Train
1928
The Blue Train cuts through the French night, carrying fortunes, secrets, and at least one corpse. When Ruth Kettering is found murdered in her compartment and the legendary Heart of Fire ruby vanishes, all of society's polite facades crack open to reveal the greed and passion beneath. Hercule Poirot, traveling aboard in search of rest, finds himself unable to resist a puzzle so elegantly constructed: a locked room, a jewel worth a kingdom, and a cast of suspects each with something to hide. Was it the estranged husband seeking his fortune? The mysterious Russian with a mysterious past? The woman who boarded the train claiming to be someone else entirely? Christie weaves a tapestry of deception where everyone on board has a secret, and truth is just another passenger waiting to board at the wrong station. The Mystery of the Blue Train captures the giddy excess of the Jazz Age and the dark violence that simmers beneath champagne and caviar. It remains a masterwork of the Golden Age mystery: a puzzle box wrapped in silk,求解 by a Belgian detective with an egg-shaped head and an insatiable appetite for justice.
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“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.””
— Agatha Christie
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.””
— Agatha Christie
“Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean.""Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so.""Why?""Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle.""'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me.""Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it."The whistle of the engine came again."Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.””
— Agatha Christie
“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot””
— Agatha Christie
“The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.””
— Agatha Christie
“...إن الرجل الطيب قد يهلكه حبه لامرأة سيئة - والعكس صحيح أيضا- فالرجل الشرير قد يهلكه حبه لامرأة طيبة””
— Agatha Christie
“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.””
— Agatha Christie
“Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.””
— Agatha Christie
“those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.””
— Agatha Christie
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