Agatha Christie's The Plymouth Express Murder
About the Story
Agatha Christie was born in southwest England to a wealthy family. Growing up, Christie enjoyed reading mystery novels by Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of Christie’s short stories were first published in periodicals and feature the eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. “The Plymouth Express Affair” was first published in The Sketch in April 1923 in the United Kingdom and in the U.S. in The Blue Book Magazine in January 1924. The story was expanded five years later into the novel, The Mystery of the Blue Train. The author of 66 detective novels and 15 short story collections, Christie is best known for her bestselling novel And Then There Were None and her play The Mousetrap.
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