Assassinio Sull'orient Express File

The narrative begins as Poirot boards the Orient Express in Istanbul to return to London [2, 7, 22].

With the train isolated from the outside world, Poirot interviews the twelve other passengers in the Calais carriage [5, 6, 23]. He discovers that many of them have hidden connections to the Armstrong family [6, 7, 20, 22]. The Resolution: A Moral Dilemma Assassinio sull'Orient Express

On the second night of the journey, the train is halted by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia [2, 7, 8]. The next morning, Samuel Ratchett, a wealthy American businessman, is found dead in his locked compartment, having been stabbed twelve times [2, 17, 19]. The narrative begins as Poirot boards the Orient

Every passenger in the carriage (except for Ratchett) was involved in the murder [4, 6, 10]. They had formed a "jury" to deliver the justice that the legal system failed to provide, with each person delivering one of the twelve stab wounds [10, 12]. The Resolution: A Moral Dilemma On the second

Ultimately, Poirot and his friend M. Bouc choose to present the simple solution to the local police, allowing the group to go free out of compassion for their shared tragedy [4, 5, 10].