Murder on the Orient Express; Death in the Clouds; Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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Murder on the Orient Express
With one mystery successfully concluded Hercule Poirot is en route from Aleppo to London where his aid on another case is eagerly awaited. But on the occasion the Orient Express does not run strictly according to the international timetable. In the middle of the night, in the heart of Yugoslavia, the train comes to a halt - and next morning it is still halted. A snowdrift is blocking the line ahead; the passengers, with one exception, face the prospect of a wait which could amount to days. The exception lies dead; stabbed not once but over and over again by an apparently frenzied killer. Or was it two killers? That, like the sleeping compartment bolted from the inside, is part of the puzzle Poirot is asked to solve.
With one mystery successfully concluded Hercule Poirot is en route from Aleppo to London where his aid on another case is eagerly awaited. But on the occasion the Orient Express does not run strictly according to the international timetable. In the middle of the night, in the heart of Yugoslavia, the train comes to a halt - and next morning it is still halted. A snowdrift is blocking the line ahead; the passengers, with one exception, face the prospect of a wait which could amount to days. The exception lies dead; stabbed not once but over and over again by an apparently frenzied killer. Or was it two killers? That, like the sleeping compartment bolted from the inside, is part of the puzzle Poirot is asked to solve.
Death in the Clouds
A woman is slain in the cabin of an airliner in mid flight. A dozen potential witnesses, including the sharply observant Hercule Poirot, are present when the deed is done; yet nobody notices anything amiss until the victim is discovered to be not asleep, as the steward had thought, but cleverly murdered.
One great point about Poirot is his ability to judge the true significance of trivia in the light of his special brand of imaginative logic. Somewhere, among the trifling and apparently inconsequential actions of the passengers, or among the odd assortment of belongings that a search of their baggage reveals, is the key that will begin to make everything clear.
A woman is slain in the cabin of an airliner in mid flight. A dozen potential witnesses, including the sharply observant Hercule Poirot, are present when the deed is done; yet nobody notices anything amiss until the victim is discovered to be not asleep, as the steward had thought, but cleverly murdered.
One great point about Poirot is his ability to judge the true significance of trivia in the light of his special brand of imaginative logic. Somewhere, among the trifling and apparently inconsequential actions of the passengers, or among the odd assortment of belongings that a search of their baggage reveals, is the key that will begin to make everything clear.
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
People had fallen over cliffs before, and at first there seemed to be nothing extraordinary about the accident at Marchbolt. The man was a stranger, and presumably unaware of the perils of the cliff path. There was nothing Bobby could do except wait with him for the help that would surely arrive too late. As he waited, the dying man suddenly spoke. "Why didn't they ask Evans?"
That was all he said; and the words seemed so inconsequential that Bobby did not even mention them at the inquest. Later, when he did report them to the mysterious Mr Cayman, strange and disturbing things began to happen and it began to seem that somebody had powerful reasons for wanting Bobby out of the way. In trying to discover why, Bobby and his friends find themselves involved in something very much more than a simple matter of accidental death.
People had fallen over cliffs before, and at first there seemed to be nothing extraordinary about the accident at Marchbolt. The man was a stranger, and presumably unaware of the perils of the cliff path. There was nothing Bobby could do except wait with him for the help that would surely arrive too late. As he waited, the dying man suddenly spoke. "Why didn't they ask Evans?"
That was all he said; and the words seemed so inconsequential that Bobby did not even mention them at the inquest. Later, when he did report them to the mysterious Mr Cayman, strange and disturbing things began to happen and it began to seem that somebody had powerful reasons for wanting Bobby out of the way. In trying to discover why, Bobby and his friends find themselves involved in something very much more than a simple matter of accidental death.
