![]() ![]() The only way he will get anything from her is if she dies. Van Aldin tries to buy Derek off, which he refuses, even though he faces mounting debts with no income besides Ruth’s. He also gives her the fabulous gift of a rare ruby, with a history of murder attached to it. Just before departing for a trip to the Riviera on the Blue Train, a luxury, overnight train through France, she agrees to her father’s counsel to divorce her philandering husband, Derek Kettering, whose most recent “bit of stuff” is an opportunistic dancer, Mirelle. The plot revolves around the murder of Ruth Kettering, daughter of American tycoon, Rufus Van Aldin. ![]() But I thought it contained some interesting plot twists and a surprise ending that I wasn’t looking for. ![]() It wasn’t one of her favorites and one she struggled to write. This was preceded by a lesser-known train mystery, The Mystery of the Blue Train, published six years earlier. Summary: A rich heiress carrying a rare ruby is murdered on the fashionable overnight train to the French Riviera on which retired detective Hercule Poirot happens to be riding.Īgatha Christie’s most well-known train mystery is Murder on the Orient Express (1934). New York: William Morrow, 2005 (originally published in 1928). The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6), Agatha Christie. ![]()
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