Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress--bailing out of a doomed marriage--is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she's found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumor of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on.Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold...
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Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress--bailing out of a doomed marriage--is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she"s found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumor of a strange man loitering in the victim"s shadow is all Poirot has to go on.Until Mrs. Kettering"s secret life begins to unfold...
The Man with the White Hair
M. le Marquis
Heart of Fire
In Curzon Street
A Useful Gentleman
Mirelle
Letters
Lady Tamplin Writes a Letter
An Offer Refused
On the Blue Train
Murder
At the Villa Marguerite
Van Aldin Gets a Telegram
Ada Mason"s Story
The Comte de la Roche
Poirot Discusses the Case
An Aristocratic Gentleman
Derek Lunches
An Unexpected Visitor
Katherine Makes a Friend
At the Tennis
M. Papopotous Breakfasts
A New Theory
Poirot Gives Advice
Defiance
A Warning
Interview with Mirelle
Poirot Plays the Squirrel
A Letter from Home
Miss Viner Gives Judgment
Mr. Aarons Lunches
Katherine and Poirot Compare Notes
A New Theory
The Blue Train Again
Explanations
By the Sea