(known in English as Murder on the Orient Express ) is one of Agatha Christie's most famous detective novels, featuring the meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot [5, 15]. The story is renowned for its intricate plot and its "closed-room" setting aboard a luxury train stranded in a snowdrift [1, 10]. The Plot: A Crime in Isolation
The narrative begins as Poirot boards the Orient Express in Istanbul to return to London [2, 7, 22]. Assassinio sull'Orient Express
The climax of the story reveals a unique and controversial solution. Poirot presents two possible explanations for the crime [4, 10]: (known in English as Murder on the Orient
On the second night of the journey, the train is halted by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia [2, 7, 8]. The next morning, Samuel Ratchett, a wealthy American businessman, is found dead in his locked compartment, having been stabbed twelve times [2, 17, 19]. The climax of the story reveals a unique
Ultimately, Poirot and his friend M. Bouc choose to present the simple solution to the local police, allowing the group to go free out of compassion for their shared tragedy [4, 5, 10].
Poirot learns that Ratchett was actually Cassetti , a notorious gangster responsible for the kidnapping and murder of a young girl named Daisy Armstrong years earlier in America [2, 4, 6, 17].
