Book Review: The Mystery of the blue train - A. Christie

Hercule Poirot serie - book 6
Poirot investigates a murder on the Blue train travelling from england to the Cote d'Azur.
I love Agatha Christie and starting the year with Poirot in south of France was brilliant.
Despite how much I love Christie's crime novels and her characters, from a plot point of view, I thought it was quite easy to guess the culprit in this case so it was not one of my Christie's favourites.

Overall rating:  6,5    Plot: 6   Writing style: 8   Cover:  7

Title: The Mystery of the blue train

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: The Agatha Christie collection (Planet Tree)
Pages: 317
Publication year: 2005 (first published in 1928)

The Plot:

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…

When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing.

The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board

The Author:

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.