オリエント急行殺人事件 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 講談社英語文庫

アガサ・クリスティ(著者)

• 販売会社／発売会社: 講談社
• 発売年月日: 2017/11/17
• JAN: 9784062500913

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2018/04/26

映画化を機会に各文庫を読み直しました。本作は英語文庫ですが、原作の英文を文庫サイズで手軽に読むことができ、巻末に注釈もあるので読みやすいと思います。TOEICレベル:450点〜とのこと。

2018/02/22

This is one of the British literature's masterpieces in mystery novels: While the greatest British detective in 19th century is Sherlock Holmes, he would be the one from Belgium in 20th century; i.e. Hercule Poirot.
On the Orient Express departing from Istanbul in Turkey to Calais in France, one murder occurs, and Poirot starts to investigate this complicated case where "Everyone is a suspect" and a wide variety of background around them is gradually getting revealed.

In the final phase of the story, Poirot suggests 2 solutions for the express passengers in suspicion. However, as one of interesting highlights, the final conclusion itself is not described explicitly in the novel and it depends on each film and TV drama how this case gets concluded at the very last scene, which also attracts you :)

(Ryohei)