Murder on the Orient Express

A governess(i.e. a person hired to take care of children for the whole day). A retired Colonel. A secretary of many languages. A conductor of the Orient Exspress. A meancing Italian witha sunny disposition. A British valet. A detective disguised as a salesman. A Russian Princess and her maid. A Swedish Nurse with a distinctive face. A loud American mother. And a count and countess of Hungary. These are the unusaul suspects in Murder on the Orient Express. Murder on theOrient Express, by Agatha Cristie, is a 256 pg( double pages) murder mystery filled with false leads, lies and deceptions. When Hercule Poriot, Belgium detective extrordinare, has to take the Orient Express back to Britian, he hardly suspected that it would become stuck in a snowdrift. Nor did he believe that that night, a wealthy American "philantropist" would brutally stabbed to death in his bed. Worse, there was no way off the train, so the murderer( or muderers) were still on the Express. With nothing but a pipecleaner, a handkerchief, and a piece of burned up letter, Poirot sets out to solve the Murder on The Orient Express. In the process, he uncovers the truth about who the victim was, and the truth brhind the lies.