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].
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].
Agatha Christie drew inspiration from the real-life Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932, a tragic case where a child was abducted and murdered despite a ransom being paid [5, 16]. She also used her own experiences of being stranded on the Orient Express during heavy rainfall to craft the novel's atmospheric and claustrophobic setting [15, 16]. imdb.com/title/tt3402236/">film adaptations ? Assassinio sull'Orient Express
The narrative begins as Poirot boards the Orient Express in Istanbul to return to London [2, 7, 22].
(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 On the second night of the journey, the
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].
With the train isolated from the outside world, Poirot interviews the twelve other passengers in the Calais carriage [5, 6, 23]. He discovers that many of them have hidden connections to the Armstrong family [6, 7, 20, 22]. The Resolution: A Moral Dilemma The narrative begins as Poirot boards the Orient
The climax of the story reveals a unique and controversial solution. Poirot presents two possible explanations for the crime [4, 10]: