Murder on the Orient Express
لقد كان قطار الشرق السريع مزدحماً بالركاب، وهو أمر غريب في هذا الوقت من العام. لكن الركاب نقصوا واحدا منهم عند الصباح؛ فقد وجد أحدهم مقتولاً في مقصورته وفي جسمه 12 طعنة وكان باب المقصورة مقفلاً من الداخل! لكن بوارو يفاجئ الجميع لكنه لا يقدم حلاً واحداً فقط بل حلين.
الشخصيات
-هيركيول بوارو -بوك -الدكتور كوستانتين -ماري ديبينهام -العقيد اربوثنوت -الكونت ادرينيه -الكونتيسة ادرينيه -صاموئيل راتشيت -بيير ميشيل -هيكتور ماكوين -ايدوارد ماسترمان -هاردمان -غريتا اولسون -الاميرة ناتاليا دراغوميروف -هيلدغارد شميدت -كارولين هوبارد
القصة
تدور أحداث هذه القصة في عدة دول هي سوريا و تركيا ويوغوسلافيا تبدأ القصة باستدعاء عاجل من رئيس وزراء انكلترا لبوارو لكي يعود من سوريا فيركب في قطار طوروس السريع الذي سيوصله إلى تركيا حيث قطار الشرق هناك يفاجأ بأن المقصورات كلها مليئة فيعرض عليه مسيو بوك رئيس الحط ان ياخذ مقصورته. هذه كبداية.
ثم بعد يوم فقط, في الليل, يسمع بوارو صوت صرخة من مقصورة راتشيت فيسمع بيير مشيل يسأل أن كان هناك شيء فيجيبه صوت بالفرنسية يقول:لم يحدث شيء, ان هذا خطأ مني, لكن كان هناك شيء بل اثنا عشرة طعنة في جسد راتشيت..! وتكتمل الدراما بأن يحدث انهيار يمنع القطار من استكمال الطريق,..
Explanation of the novel's title
The U.S. title of Murder in the Calais Coach was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the U.S. as Orient Express.
Returning from an important case in Syria, Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express in Istanbul. The train is unusually crowded for the time of year. Poirot secures a berth only with the help of his friend M. Bouc, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. When a Mr. Harris fails to show up, Poirot takes his place, to the surprise of his roommate, Mr. MacQueen. However, on the second night, Poirot gets a compartment to himself.
That night, near Belgrade, at about twenty-three minutes before 1:00 am, Poirot wakes to the sound of a loud noise. It seems to come from the compartment next to his, which is occupied by Mr. Ratchett. When Poirot peeks out his door, he sees the conductor knock on Mr. Ratchett's door and ask if he is all right. A man replies in French "Ce n'est rien. Je me suis trompé", which means "It's nothing. I made a mistake", and the conductor moves on to answer a bell down the passage. Poirot decides to go back to bed, but he is disturbed by the fact that the train is unusually still and his mouth is dry. As he lies awake, he hears Mrs. Hubbard ringing the bell urgently. When Poirot then rings the conductor for a glass of water, he learns that Mrs. Hubbard was afraid that someone had been in her compartment. He also learns that the train has stopped due to a snowstorm. Poirot dismisses the conductor and tries to go back to sleep, only to be wakened again by a thump on his door. This time when Poirot gets up and looks out of his compartment, the passage is completely silent, and he sees nothing except the back of a woman in a scarlet kimono retreating down the passage in the distance.
The next day he awakens to find that Mr. Ratchett is dead, having been stabbed twelve times in his sleep. However, the clues and circumstances are very mysterious. Some of the stab wounds are very deep and some are glancing blows. Furthermore, some of them appear to have been inflicted by a right-handed person and some by a left-handed person.
Poirot finds several more clues in the victim's cabin and on board the train, including a linen handkerchief embroidered with the initial "H", a pipe cleaner, and a button from a conductor's uniform. All of these clues suggest that the murderer or murderers were somewhat sloppy. However, each clue seemingly points to different suspects, which suggests that some of the clues were planted.
By reconstructing some bits of a burned letter, Poirot discovers that Mr. Ratchett was a notorious fugitive from the U.S. named Cassetti. Five years earlier, Cassetti kidnapped three-year-old American heiress Daisy Armstrong. Though the Armstrong family paid a large ransom, Cassetti murdered the little girl and fled the country with the money. Daisy's mother, Sonia Armstrong, was pregnant when she heard of Daisy's death. The shock sent her into premature labour, and both she and the child died. Her husband, Colonel Armstrong, shot himself out of grief. Mrs. Armstrong's maid, Suzanne, was suspected by the police, despite her protests. She threw herself out of a window and died, after which she was proved innocent.
As the evidence mounts, it continues to point in wildly different directions and it appears that Poirot is being challenged by a master mind. A critical piece of missing evidence - the scarlet kimono worn the night of the murder by an unknown woman — turns up in Poirot's own luggage.
Poirot discovers that some of the passengers had connections to the victim, while others had connections to the Armstrong family.
* MacQueen is the son of the district attorney in charge of the Armstrong case.
* Masterman was Colonel Armstrong's batman during the war.
* Colonel Arbuthnot was Colonel Armstrong's comrade and best friend.
* Mrs. Hubbard was formerly an actress under the name of Linda Arden (real name Linda Goldenberg), and Sonia Armstrong's mother.
* Countess Andrenyi (née Goldenberg) was Mrs. Armstrong's sister.
* Princess Dragomiroff was Sonia Armstrong's godmother.
* Miss Debenham was Mrs. Armstrong's secretary and Daisy Armstrong's governess.
* Miss Schmidt was the Armstrong family's cook.
* Foscarelli was the Armstrong family's chauffeur.
* Miss Ohlsson was Daisy Armstrong's nurse.
* Pierre Michel was the father of Suzanne, the maid.
* Hardman was a policeman in love with Suzanne.
After meditating on the evidence, Poirot assembles the twelve suspects, M. Bouc, and Dr. Constantine in the restaurant car. He lays out two possible explanations of Ratchett's murder.
Poirot's first explanation is that a stranger - some gangster enemy of Ratchett - boarded the train at Vinkovci, the last stop, murdered Ratchett for reasons unknown, and escaped unnoticed. The crime occurred an hour earlier than everyone thought, because the victim and several others failed to note that the train had just crossed into a different time zone. The other noises heard by Poirot on the coach that evening were unrelated to the murder. However, Dr. Constantine says that Poirot must surely be aware that this explanation does not fully explain the circumstances of the case.
Poirot's second explanation is rather more sensational: All of the suspects are guilty. Poirot's suspicions were first piqued by the fact that these people were acquaintances of many different European nationalities. Poirot reasons that this usually occurs in the United States of America, the “melting pot” where a Scotsman may be acquainted with an Italian and a German, all of different social classes and all at the same time. There was no other way the murder could have taken place, given the evidence. Poirot reveals that the other passengers were all relatives, servants, or friends of the Armstrong family, or had connections to the crime. All had been gravely affected by Daisy's murder and the consequences of the crime. They took it into their own hands to serve as Cassetti's executioners, to avenge a crime the law was unable to punish. Each of the suspects stabbed Ratchett once, so that no one could know who delivered the fatal blow. Twelve of the conspirators participated to allow for a "twelve-person jury", with Count Andrenyi acting for his wife, as she (Daisy's aunt) would have been the most likely suspect. One extra berth was booked under a fictitious name - Harris - so no one but the conspirators and the victim would be on board. (The cabin next to Ratchett was already reserved for a director of the Wagons-Lits.)
The unexpected stoppage in the snowbank, and Poirot's unexpected presence, caused complications to the conspirators that resulted in several crucial clues being left behind. As Poirot reveals the details of the elaborate plot, many of the suspects break down in tears. Mrs. Hubbard confesses that the second theory is correct.
Poirot thus lays down the two explanations before all assembled and asks the director of the Wagons-Lits as to which explanation he thinks is correct. The director says that the first explanation is decidedly the correct one and suggests that that is the one they offer to the police. His task completed, Poirot states he has "the honour to retire from the case."
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