内容简介

during the night on a several day train trip across lower Europe, Poirot's seemingly unpopular sleeping car neighbor is murdered. Rather than little or no clues or suspects, almost everybody aboard the train is a suspect; plenty of clues float around besides. Since the train is totally stalled due to a heavy snow, no resources other than sheer brainpower are available to our intellectual Belgian sleuth. Poirot gets by without his familiar sidekick, Capt. Hastings, but "adopts" a railroad executive and the traveling doctor as foils upon which to foist his evolving theories. After Poirot very cleverly determines that the victim is a hated child kidnapper/killer from America, the plot thickens as the interrogations proceed -- first one and then another and then another of the passengers seem to be related somehow to that long ago famous case. Could it be a conspiracy? You'll be turning the 200 pages rapidly to find out!

作品目录

Part1 The Facts

1 An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express

2 The Tokatlian Hotel

3 Poirot Refuses a Case

4 A Cry Inthe Night

5 The Crime

6 A Woman?

7 The Body

8 The Armstrong Kidnapping Case

Part2 The Evidence

1 The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor

2 The Evidence of The seeretary

3 The Evidence of the Valet

4 The Evidence of the American Lady

5 The evidence of the Swedish Lady

6 The Evidence of the Russian Princess

7 The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi

8 The Evidence of Colonel Arbouthnor

9 The Evidence of Mr Hardman

10 The Evidence of the Italian

11 The Evidence of Miss Debenham

12 The Evidence of the German Lady s-Maid

13 Summary of the Passengers Evidence

14 The Evidence of the weapon

15 The Evidence of the Passengers Luggage

Part3 Hercule Polrot Sits Back and Thinks

1 Which of Them?

2 Ten Questions

3 Certain Suggestive Points

4 The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport

5 The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff

6 A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot

7 The Identity of Mary Debenham

8 Further Surprising Revelations

9 Poirot Propounds Two Solutions