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Ana Cvetković
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AGATHA CHRISTIE (1890-1976)
• Famous Murder Mystery
Writer
• Hercule Poirot and Miss
Marple
• Award-winning Novels
• Most Translated Individual
Author
• Movies Based on her Books

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CHARACTERS

• Daisy, Sonia and John


Armstrong
• Susanne Michel
• Poirot, Bouc and Dr.
Constantine
• Ratchett/Cassetti
• 12 Passengers

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SUMMARY

Part 1 − 8 Chapters

Part 2 − 15 Chapters

Part 3 − 9 Chapters

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PART 1
• Poirot Boards the Orient
Express

• A Passenger is Murdered

• Ratchett’s Real Identity

• Backstory of Daisy
Armstrong’s Murder

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PART 2

• Poirot Interrogates
the Passengers

• New Clues

• Red Kimono

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PART 3

• Two solutions :
- Murderer from the Outside
- Everybody was Involved

• Confession

• False Police Report

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FAVORITE QUOTES

“I can only see a “It is the brain, the little


world as it should gray cells on which
be. It makes an one must rely. One
imperfection stick must seek the truth
out like the nose within-not without.“
on your face.” – Poirot
– Poirot
MY OPINION

− Thinking Outside
the Box

− Teamwork

− Paying Attention
to Details
MOVIE ADAPTATIONS

• Murder on the Orient


Express (1974)

• Murder on the Orient


Express (2017)
https://youtu.be/YASrjXnJW
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https://youtu.be/kjSN6hmg
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https://youtu.be/Mq4m3yA Picture 7 and 8


SOURCES
Picture 1 - Photo by Walter Bird - Image courtesy gettyimages.com (retrieved from https://
www.imdb.com/name/nm0002005/mediaviewer/rm1188734976)
Picture 2 – retrieved from https://pixabay.com/vectors/detective-people-poirot-man-person-161195/
Picture 3 – publisher Collins Crime Club, the cover artist not known. (retrieved from https://
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_First_Edition_Cover_1934.jpg
)
Picture 4 - Richard Amsel's poster for Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. (retrieved from
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsabree/3866738086/in/album-72157608224334958/)
Picture 5 – Retrieved from https
://www.google.com/search?q=red+kimono+murder+on+the+orient+express&sxsrf=ACYBGNQT5XStv5
94UsXNDAbt6M-XxTtwFQ:1570365554071&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQgZLI0
4flAhURyaQKHdAoAn8Q_AUIEigB&biw=1458&bih=640&dpr=0.94#imgrc=p92OA1XsDfVwxM
:
Picture 6 – Retrieved from https://
www.comicbookmovie.com/comics/murder-on-the-orient-express-adaptation-2010s-decade-a150228
Picture 7 and 8 – retrieved fom imdb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071877/mediaviewer/rm1740440320 and
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402236/mediaviewer/rm3261735168
GAME
In front of your are quotes from Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient
Express” with some words missing. Add the word you believe would be
suitable in the sentence from the given:

− brevity – brief
− convey – possible
− rejoiced – sojourn
− inarticulate – nationalities
− solemn – egress
− straightforward
1. ” I can only give you my _________ word of honour that I had never set eyes on this man Ratchett in my life
until I saw him on this train.” 
(honest)
2. “During your _________ in the United States, did you ever come across the deceased?” 
(journey)
3. ”Colonel Arbuthnot, uninterested in what a pack of foreigners called anything, replied with true British
_________: “Yes.” 
(short and simple use of words)
4. “Perhaps Madame la Princesse will be so good as to spare us a few moments of her time. __________ that
message to her, Michel.”
(pass on information)
5. “He hastily thrust the uniform into a suitcase in an empty compartment, and a few minutes later, dressed in
ordinary clothes, he left the train just before it started off, using the same means for _________-the door near
the dining-car.”
(exit)
6. ”That seems to imply that this isn't a _________ murder, but instead an attempt at a trial by jury.”
(simple)
7. "If ever a man deserved what he got, Ratchett or Cassetti is the man. I'm _________ at his end. Such a man
wasn't fit to live!"
(happy)
8. ”There were thirteen people seated there and, as M. Bouc had said, of all classes and____________.”
9. ”Your answers will be _____ and to the point.”
10. “The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be _______ in spite of appearances.”

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