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The Mystery of the Blue Train
Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress - bailing out of a doomed marriage - is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on. Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold...Year: 1928
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: On a train
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: On a train
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot. Also: Joseph Aarons, Alice, Msr. Carrege, Msr. Caux, Comte Armand De La Roche, Olga Demiroff, Ellen, Charles "Chubby" Evans, Mr. Goby, Katherine Grey, Boris Ivanovitch, Derek and Ruth Kettering, Major Richard Knighton, Ada Beatrice Mason, Pierre Michel, Mirelle, Demetrius and Zia Papopolous, The Honourable Lenox Tamplin, Viscountess Rosalie Tamplin, Rufus Van Aldin, Amelia VinerPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1928 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. The novel has not been adapted for stage or screen.xxx