The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie

Book 6 of Hercule Poirot

First published 1928 · 257 pages

About this book

Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress bailing out of a doomed marriage is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on. Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold...

  • Crimes against
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Divorce
  • Divorce in fiction
  • Fiction
  • Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
  • Jewelry theft
  • Jewelry theft in fiction

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