num_pages: 317
description: A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train from London to the French Riviera -- ingredients for the perfect romance or the perfect crime? When the train stops, the jewel is missing, and the woman is found dead in her compartment. It's the perfect mystery, filled with passion, greed, deceit, and confusion. Is Hercule Poirot is the perfect detective to solve it?Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.
language: English
title: The Mystery of the Blue Train
titlecomplete: The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
characters: Rufus Van Aldin, Hercule Poirot, Derek Kettering, Mirelle (The Mystery of the Blue Train), Katherine Grey, Lady Rosalie Tamplin, Armand, the Comte de la Roche, Ada Mason, Zia Papopolous, Major Richard Knighton, Demetrius Papopolous, Ruth Kettering, Lenox Tamplin
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 60106
places: Paris, United Kingdom, England, London, England, Nice, France
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers