... taking the train. But not the TGV fast too! Too modern!
I invite you to board the legendary Orient Express. We leave Istanbul for three days of travel throughout Europe and snow to London.
simply one of the passengers will never happen in life ...
' Murder on the Orient Express ' by Agatha Christie (1934 - 348 pages)
Minimum level required: B1 (+) - perfect for young readers
(to determine your level of reading, see the pages of June 09 of this blog)
This is a perfect book if you're afraid to get bored on holiday! And even if the murder is glaucous with desire, you will travel in good company: a Russian princess, a pretty governess, a British colonel, not to mention Mr. Poirot Himself. Taking tea is said of pleasantries, we sleep in first class compartments (like Audrey Tautou and the Beautiful Stranger in superb advertisement for Chanel No. 5!), Until this process is mythical stopped by a snowstorm in Yugoslavia ...
is very easy to read, because everything is reported as a dialogue (it could also be a play (*)) but also because as Hercule Poirot Belgium ( nobody's perfect! ), he speaks French very much.
As always at Agatha Christie, the characters are not what one believes, which is still a bit of spice in a long journey.
(*) The play 'The Mousetrap ' Written by Agatha Christie has a record of longevity: it is played continuously in London since 1952! I saw it three times, with different players, but the magic in every performance. It's the same kind of camera in 'Murder on the Orient Express': it snows, the characters find themselves stuck in one place and one of them has the bad taste to die murdered ...
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