The Mystery of the Blue Train (1962-05 edition) | Open Library They switch train compartments, and when Ruth is bludgeoned to death, making her features unrecognizable, Poirot speculates that the intended victim may have been Katherine. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. All opinions stated are my own and not those of my employer or school. At the end of the film, the murderer, Major Richard Knighton, commits suicide by having himself run over by an oncoming train, instead of just being arrested by the French police as in the novel. See production, box office & company info, Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express, Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. Part of the problem is, I think, that we are given too much information about the suspects and possible motives from the start. She and Fisher (to whom Christie referred affectionately as both "Carlo" and "Carlotta") divided her acquaintances into two separate categories; the Order of Rats and the Order of Faithful Dogs (O.F.D.) Hopefully I will find it holds up! The novel's plot is based on the 1923 Poirot short story The Plymouth Express (much later collected in book form in the US in 1951 in The Under Dog and Other Stories and in the UK in 1974 in Poirot's Early Cases). Having read Chriss complete works, even her nonfiction, The Mystery of the Blue Train is one of my favorites. [14] Curtain was written at the same time and similarly locked away, but publication of this latter book would not be possible until the end of her writing career, as it recounts the death of Poirot. Agatha Christie's most well-known train mystery is Murder on the Orient Express (1934). The mystery of the blue train. Agatha Christie's beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night trainwith all of the suspects aboard. The novel was televised in 2006 as a special episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, and was aired by ITV on 1 January starring David Suchet as Poirot, Roger Lloyd-Pack as Inspector Caux, James D'Arcy as Derek Kettering, Lindsay Duncan as Lady Tamplin, Alice Eve as Lenox and Elliott Gould as Rufus Van Aldin. The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie . [citation needed], Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_the_Blue_Train&oldid=1147115997, Rufus Van Aldin, the American millionaire, Ruth's father, Ruth Kettering, Van Aldin's only daughter, Derek's wife, Hon Derek Kettering, Van Aldin's son-in-law, Ruth's husband, Mirelle, a Parisian dancer, Derek's gold-digging and later vengeful French lover, Major Richard Knighton, Van Aldin's secretary, Armand, Comte de la Roche, former lover of Ruth, Katherine Grey, formerly companion to the recently deceased Mrs Harfield, who has left her entire estate to Grey, Dr and Mrs Harrison, Katherine's friends in the village of St Mary Mead, Amelia Viner, an elderly, terminally ill spinster and friend of Katherine Grey in St Mary Mead, Rosalie, Viscountess Tamplin, cousin of Katherine, owner of a villa on the Riviera, Hon.
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