Mystery on the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6)

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I read another book from Agatha Cristie it was called the Blue Train. It is a classic detective novel starring Hercule Poirot. I think I mentioned before someplace that I read all of her books before when I was a teenager. I started reading them again and I can find some items to compare to even in today's modern age.

For those who use the internet to contact and talk to individuals who may be total strangers, we are constantly warned about giving out private information because it could get us into trouble. But after I read the Blue Train I realized that the internet does not provoke that type of behavior. This behavior seems to be innate.

Sufficient to say that in the novel, two wealthy women get to meet in the dining car of the train. One woman is wealthy because she is the daughter of a wealthy man. The other Woman inherited her wealth, she was a paid companion to an extremely rich woman who was a penny pincher, this woman with no close family around to pass her belongings died and she passes everything to her paid companion, which incidentally made her rich. The companion had no idea how wealthy her former and now dead her patroness was.

In the dining car of the train, they seem to get along very well and they start talking and rapidly they dive into their private and personal lives. One of the women get emotion and decides to invite the other to her private quarters on the train. Once in their private quarters on the train, they really reveal your personal situation with each other. Of course, somebody overhears them and eventually, it brings on problems for both of them. One got murdered. The other even innocent of the murder still get hit on by every individual who has found out that she inherited a fortune.

Sounds familiar?

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