The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie is a crime mystery that exposes situations dealing with violence and many unforeseen events. This novel takes place in England during 1935. The two main Characters of the story are Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. There is a mixture between first and third person, which at times almost makes you feel as if you are the murder.
Agatha Christie wrote this novel for young adults or anyone interested in solving crimes. The purpose of this novel is to entertain the reader and to keep the audience on their toes about who would be murdered next. For instance, when the first murder victim’s name started with an “A” and the second with a “B”, it captivated your attention and made you want to continue reading. Throughout the novel, the author's tone was suspenseful and mysterious when trying to figure out who Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings
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Poirot then shows Hastings and Japp the ABC list he receives. They think the ABC list is a lie, but he is the only one who believed it. The people whose names are on the ABC list start getting murdered. When Mrs. Ascher dies, they suspect it was her husband; but they then find a railway guide. Which made it clear that it wasn’t her husband who killed Ms.Ascher. Poirot and Hastings receive the second letter, only this time it gave the date and place the next victim would be murdered. They investigate Ms. Barnard’s fiance after she is murdered, but don’t find anything against him. After they receive the third, Mr. Carmichael Clarke dies. They find that there were stockings involved and that the murderer must have been selling them. They start suspecting Alexander Crust and search his house, they find the railway guide and a knife they caught him in Andover. Poirot then reveals the murderer to be Mr. Franklin Clarke and how all he wanted to do is to kill his brother to keep his
Christopher went to check on his neighbor’s dog Wellington when he looked up to see Mrs. Shears screaming, and calling the cops. After he was found innocent, Christopher decided to launch an investigation on who killed Wellington. When his father found out he told Christopher to leave it alone. Christopher ignores him and asks Mrs. Alexander questions soon their relationship grows and Christopher begins to trust her. When Christopher asked her why his father doesn’t like Mr. Shears she told him that his mother and Mr. Shears had an affair. When his father found Christopher’s book he learned that Christopher knows about the affair and that he was still being a “detective”. His father hid the book from Christopher, when he found the book he also found letters. The letters went sent from his mother, even after she “died”. When his dad found him with the letters he explained why he said she was dead, why he kept the letters from him, and why he killed Wellington. Later that night Christopher ran away from his father to London, England where his mother lives. When he arrived his mother took him in and he explained why he was there because being afraid of his father. When Christopher remembered his A level math class he and his mother move back to Swindon, England, soon Christopher begins to trust his
One evening, Henry Spearman made to choice to indulge in a hike, one of the many activities that he enjoyed. As he walked on he saw the Justice Foote, who was on a jog, and let him pass by. A few minutes later, Spearman found his body on the trail and he had experienced blunt trauma to the head. Prior to Foote’s murder, he had been made aware that he was the new Target. Detective Vincent, after a few hours of interrogation, knew that the murders were LeMans and Harbley. They had confessed to the murders after the interrogation.
The two men convince that they were arrested for writing bad checks; they were not as worried. In the investigation rather than being asked about the men’s crime; they were asked about their life and later asked about when the Clutter’s dies.
The main point of this article is that this story has most classic Christie themes including an enclosed setting (oriented express) and loose associates among suspects. In a detective novel, the suspects usually is much closer to the dead person. But in Murder On The Orient Express, the readers are aware that one after another passengers is connected with the Armstrong kidnapping case. In the end it turns out that everyone has something to hide; however, the criminals are let off scot-free because they have got rid of the world of a monster that law cannot reach,
George Hennessey, a Chief Inspector, is working on a case trying to find a missing middle aged couple named Max and Amanda. They vanished with out a trace recently, leaving behind a modest home and children that are in adulthood. Hennessey draws the initial conclusion that there is some foul play here. He is later called out to a crime scene on a local farm where a shallow grave is found, and in the grave are two bodies. None other then his missing couple. This is the beginning of things for Detective Inspector Hennessey and the rest of the police squad. One thing that Hennessey knows for sure is that they were not killed because of a vast sum of money they had lost a quite sizable chunk of change recently. They were both engaged in affairs that neither one knew about. What is odd too, is how the son is acting throughout the investigation, and the cherry on top of the whole thing is that a family secret
After reviewing the evidence, Mary Debenham, Hector Macqueen, and Colonel Arbuthnot are responsible for the murdering Samuel Edward Ratchett. Mary Debenham, the young English governess, is a prime suspect in the murder due to a substantial amount of suspicious activity. At the start of the novel, while Hercule Poirot was aboard the Taurus Express, he studied Ms. Debenham’s personality in such great detail that after observing her on the Orient Express, he immediately identified various inconsistencies. Ms. Debenham and the Colonel acted differently among one another on the two trains. While on the Taurus Express, Ms. Debenham and the Colonel discussed personal information among each other. “[...] they discovered some mutual friends, which had the immediate effect of making them more friendly and less stiff” (Christie 10). They opened up with one another and were friendly. On the Orient Express, they acted opposite, seeming as if they were never acquainted. “At the next table, a small one, sat Colonel Arbuthnot—alone. [...] They were not sitting together”(Christie 18). Poirot, at first, assumed that the reason that they sat independently of each other was due to Ms. Debenham fearing that her reputation would be tainted, but with further knowledge, it can be inferred that they sat apart to not be assumed together. They would not want to be seen together if they both took part in the murder. Another instance of Ms. Debenham’s suspicious behavior can be displayed during the two train delays. Despite the similar environments, she acted opposite in each situation. On the Taurus Express, during the delay, she acted frantic and anxious, desperately asking when the train would continue. “But we can’t afford delay! This train is due in at 6.55 [...] and catch the Simplon Orient Express on the other side at nine o’clock. If there is an hour or two of delay we shall miss the connection”(Christie 11). Why did Ms. Debenham need to catch that particular train so badly? By the next day, another Orient Express would be there to take her to London. Ms. Debenham would have had to catch that particular train in order to fulfill her plans of killing Ratchett. After Ratchett was murdered, Ms. Debenham was caught in yet another
Conversely in Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express the authors use of a ‘locked room’ scenario ensures the reader has ‘some chance of identifying the killer’ whilst a web of false identities and alibis ‘create difficulty’ for any reader attempting to solve the puzzle. Christie also provides any and all evidences used in the final conclusion to be available to the reader as immediately as they are to the detective. Murder on the Orient Express is set up for a shocking and satisfying conclusion from its first pages, with all the elements of the solution found woven into the text before the grand reveal.
Casetti was a man who kidnapped and later killed the baby of the Armstrongs. Later on the train, the reader finds out that Casetti changed his name to Ratchett. This is the same train that the passengers that were friends with the Armstrongs are on. ““If you will forgive me for being personal – I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,” he said.” tells the reader that Poirot, not even knowing Ratchett, knows that he did not have a good character.
While each proses a serve of justice and determination to do the right thing; the men approach the crime scene emotionless, indifferent and determined to go in and get to the bottom of the mystery as quick as possible, and push aside the little details. Little do they know that the things they are putting off could be very essential to their case? For example, in a conversation between the attorney and Mr. Hale who remarks, “..I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made such a difference to John..” who was interrupted by the attorney in mid conversation and interjects, “Let’s talk about that later, Mr. Hale. I do want to talk about that, but tell now just what happened when you got to the house.” (1127) Meanwhile, while the men are out on their hunt for clues, the women stay in the kitchen to look through Mrs. Wright’s things and discuss a motive for why she killed her husband. Glaspell proposes a plan that by looking deeper into circumstances, you may in turn fully understand its true meaning; leaving no stone left unturned.
There are many different recurring themes in the novel Murder on the Orient Express. The book opens with a fully packed train full of supposed strangers and the world-class detective, Monsieur Hercule Poirot. They end up finding themselves in the middle of a fiasco of tragedy including murder, lies, and forbidden love. A stranger named M. Ratchett, whom the reader, as well as M. Poirot, later discovers was the mastermind behind an infamous kidnapping and the murder of a young child: Daisy Armstrong, earlier that year in America, is brutally murdered the second night of their trip. The novel follows the deduction of Poirot in his attempt to discover which man, or woman, is behind this case. A constant theme that the novel follows is the theme of justice and judgement.
But not every detective uses the same solving methods or follows the rules. s We are introduced to the brilliant mind of Hercule Poirot in the story The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. He treats everyone like a suspect for everyone has something to hide from him. Poirot's investigative methods include the use of what he calls his "little gray cells" and "little ideas.
““But in that case,” he said, “Who killed them?”” From the very beginning, the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie was a whirlwind of pointing fingers at each other. Ten guests arrived at Indian Island, all with different stories to tell. As the guests continue socializing, they discover that their host, who calls himself Mr. Owen, isn’t on the island with them. In little distress, as they expect him to come in a few days, they start making themselves comfortable when a strange voice accuses them all of different murders. The strangeness continues from there on when one by one they all die, a plot that is later discovered to be planned by Lawrence Wargrave. The four important aspects of mystery, conflict, setting, characterization, and how the author presents clues were very important in making this mystery novel come together, from beginning to end.
The novel Mrs.McGinty’s Dead by the talented Agatha Christie, describes the murderous death of Mrs.McGinty. The novel begins with the main character Hercule Poirot getting a phone call from a Superintendent Spence, wanting to discuss the mysterious murder of Mrs.McGinty, a former charwoman, or house cleaner. At first, the court decides that James Bentley, her apartment roommate, was guilty of this terrible crime. However, Poirot and Spence are under the impression that James Bentley was framed for this serious crime. In fact, Maude Williams (a close friend of James Bentley) even stated that she like James and that he had only well wishes for Mrs.McGinty.
Murder on the Orient Express is more than just a murder mystery. It is a novel that utilizes a great deal of existing social issues of the era in which it was written and formed a commentary on those issues while giving the reader an intriguing yet approachable narrative. Through this approach, Agatha Christie has given the reader an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of the seasoned private investigator Hercule Poirot. In this world, nothing is at it seems and apparent coincidence belies a hidden truth, a world in which the geographical connections created by passenger railways allowed people of different nationalities and classes to rub elbows.
Mr Struthers describes the brutal murder of Mrs Anderson, and explains that he and the killer came face to face. He eventually agrees to identify the killer of Mrs Anderson through a line-up of suspects, but only if he is not visible to the killer, saying “if he sees me, it’s all off. I won’t go through with it if he can see me.”. At the end, he comes face to face with lieutenant Anderson, and in a panic, Mr Struthers suspiciously changes his mind and calls the whole thing off.