Hergatha Christie Research Paper

In 1934, forty-four-year-old Agatha Christie had the tenth book of her Hercule Poirot series published. Murder On The Orient Express is a bone-chilling mystery and is thought of as one of Christie's most notable works “the book features her most enduring literary creation Hercule Poirot and one of the trademark “twist” endings for which Christie was famous”(Novels For Students 142). Another factor to Christie´s popularity is her ability to create charming and enduring dectives like Hercule Poirot (Christie, Agatha). Hercule Poirot is Christie’s greatest creation, many say (Christie, Agatha). The Belgian detective is one of the most famous detectives in all of the fiction, he was created in 1916 when Christie wrote the first novel.(Christie,

The Lindbergh kidnapping happened March 1, 1932, between 9:30 pm and 10:00 pm. Baby Lindbergh was laid down around 7:30 pm, Charles Lindbergh was in the library when he heard a clatter, he imaged it being slats breaking. The nurse Betty Gow, then discovered the baby was missing, she alerted Charles. He found a ransom note in the crib.(Novels for Students) In the novel the Armstrong Kidnapping although had their daughter taken and killed, this case was molded 2 years after the Lindbergh incident.(Novels For Students) “Do you know anyone connected with the Armstrong case who answers to that description small, dark, womanish voice”(pg 164 ch 9) “In the 1930’s Bruno Hauptmann alleged kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, results in a media circus, now murder trials involving celebrities continue to result in media frenzy with nonstop coverage by several news outlets”(Novels For Students pg 154) Hercule discovered the man who was killed on the train is the man who is responsible for killing the Armstrong child, which Hercule was relying on as bits of evidence “it was planned as an act of delayed justice against Ratchett. Twelve people from different backgrounds, all connected to the Armstrong household but pretending not to know each other” (Novels For Students pg 147). As there is twelve people in a jury, there are twelve people in this story like executioners. Ratchett was stabbed twelve times, each time by another person.(Shmoop). Each person in this story was involved in the crime, for Hercule the case was beginning to get harder to piece together. “I was particularly struck by an extraordinary difficulty of proving a case against one person on the train and on the rather curious coincidence that in each case the testimony giving an alibi came from what