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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Hercule Poirot catches criminals, even though he himself was caught by the flu. The incredibly vain detective solves most of the mysteries without getting up from his chair. He finds bank bonds, explains the mystery of the stolen diamond, prevents the kidnapping of the Prime Minister, confronts the mafia, meets with an American intelligence agent, and... a black cat.
"Little gray cells" are an invaluable weapon when Poirot conducts an investigation!
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3) Curtain
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
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Styles Court, the Essex manor house, scene of master detective Hercule Poirot's first triumph. An air of evil still touches the gracious grounds--and the fierce little Belgian pits his brilliant mind against the vanity of killers.