Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress--bailing out of a doomed marriage--is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she's found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumor of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on.Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold...

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Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress--bailing out of a doomed marriage--is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she"s found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumor of a strange man loitering in the victim"s shadow is all Poirot has to go on.Until Mrs. Kettering"s secret life begins to unfold...

The Man with the White Hair

M. le Marquis

Heart of Fire

In Curzon Street

A Useful Gentleman

Mirelle

Letters

Lady Tamplin Writes a Letter

An Offer Refused

On the Blue Train

Murder

At the Villa Marguerite

Van Aldin Gets a Telegram

Ada Mason"s Story

The Comte de la Roche

Poirot Discusses the Case

An Aristocratic Gentleman

Derek Lunches

An Unexpected Visitor

Katherine Makes a Friend

At the Tennis

M. Papopotous Breakfasts

A New Theory

Poirot Gives Advice

Defiance

A Warning

Interview with Mirelle

Poirot Plays the Squirrel

A Letter from Home

Miss Viner Gives Judgment

Mr. Aarons Lunches

Katherine and Poirot Compare Notes

A New Theory

The Blue Train Again

Explanations

By the Sea