作者：AgathaChristie
出版社：HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
出版年：2001-6-1
页数：240
定价：UK6.99
装帧：Paperback
丛书：AgathaChristie-HarperCollins2003
ISBN：9780007119318
内容简介
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Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett 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…
作者简介
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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.
During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.
On Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks. They divorced in 1928, two years after Christie discovered her husband was having an affair.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During this marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines.
In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house Styles in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days.
In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976. In 1977, Mallowan married his longtime associate, Barbara Parker.
Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.
Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, which is in the story collection of the same name, and the novel After the Funeral. "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.
During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital of University College, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels.
To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club. In the 1971 New Year Honours she was promoted Dame Commande
目录
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PART I – THE FACTS
1. AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER ON THE TAURUS EXPRESS
2. THE TOKATLIAN HOTEL
3. POIROT REFUSES A CASE
4. A CRY IN THE NIGHT
5. THE CRIME
6. A WOMAN
7. THE BODY
8. THE ARMSTRONG KIDNAPPING CASE
PART II – THE EVIDENCE
1. THE EVIDENCE OF THE WAGON LIT CONDUCTOR
2. THE EVIDENCE OF THE SECRETARY
3. THE EVIDENCE OF THE VALET
4. THE EVIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN LADY
5. THE EVIDENCE OF THE SWEDISH LADY
6. THE EVIDENCE OF THE RUSSIAN PRINCESS
7. THE EVIDENCE OF COUNT AND COUNTESS ANDRENYI
8. THE EVIDENCE OF COLONEL ARBUTHNOT
9. THE EVIDENCE OF MR. HARDMAN
10.THE EVIDENCE OF THE ITALIAN
11.THE EVIDENCE OF MISS DEBENHAM
12.THE EVIDENCE OF THE GERMAN LADY’S-MAID
13.SUMMARY OF THE PASSENGERS’ EVIDENCE
14.THE EVIDENCE OF THE WEAPON
15.THE EVIDENCE OF THE PASSENGERS’ LUGGAGE
PART III – HERCULE POIROT SITS BACK AND THINKS
1. WHICH OF THEM?
2. TEN QUESTIONS
3. CERTAIN SUGGESTIVE POINTS
4. THE GREASE SPOT ON A HUNGARIAN PASSPORT
5. THE CHRISTIAN NAME OF PRINCESS DRAGOMIROFF
6. A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL ARBUTHNOT
7. THE IDENTITY OF MARY DEBENHAM
8. FURTHER SURPRISING REVELATIONS
9. POIROT PROPOUNDS TWO SOLUTIONS
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2006.9.5 嗯，小时候看电影没看懂。重新翻小说，总算明白了。其实Agatha写作初期还是对布置red herrings很不老练。虽然这本书为她赢得了盛名，我并不觉得这本书多成熟。（也有人说她到了晚期，因为风格形成，很多凶手也是隐藏不住）。 Anyway, 这本书的亮点是幽默的语言。我衡量一个作者的写作能力，都是看她的幽默感。这部小说真的是很多地方蛮爆笑的。
我更喜欢前面不急不缓的推理过程，而后面急转的结果实在有些不在情理之中却又能自圆其说。这种奇特的案子大概也只有Poirot能破吧？惊喜的是，没想到侦探小说还能这么幽默，隔三差五让人笑！法语我几乎都还给老师了，好在文中穿插的少数法语并不难不影响阅读。
看的直让人痴迷不已，结局完全没猜到，故事推进的精彩无比！还推荐她的另一本游记《告诉我怎样去生活》。
即使知道整个故事，还是手不释卷。太佩服了。而且，除了密不透风的推理，另外一个非常出色的地方是对群像的描写，每个人都那么鲜亮有层次。有些段落又幽默得要命。
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