Express | Assassinio Sull'orient
The climax of the story reveals a unique and controversial solution. Poirot presents two possible explanations for the crime [4, 10]:
With the train isolated from the outside world, Poirot interviews the twelve other passengers in the Calais carriage [5, 6, 23]. He discovers that many of them have hidden connections to the Armstrong family [6, 7, 20, 22]. The Resolution: A Moral Dilemma Assassinio sull'Orient Express
Every passenger in the carriage (except for Ratchett) was involved in the murder [4, 6, 10]. They had formed a "jury" to deliver the justice that the legal system failed to provide, with each person delivering one of the twelve stab wounds [10, 12]. The climax of the story reveals a unique
Agatha Christie drew inspiration from the real-life Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932, a tragic case where a child was abducted and murdered despite a ransom being paid [5, 16]. She also used her own experiences of being stranded on the Orient Express during heavy rainfall to craft the novel's atmospheric and claustrophobic setting [15, 16]. imdb.com/title/tt3402236/">film adaptations ? The Resolution: A Moral Dilemma Every passenger in
Ultimately, Poirot and his friend M. Bouc choose to present the simple solution to the local police, allowing the group to go free out of compassion for their shared tragedy [4, 5, 10].
Poirot learns that Ratchett was actually Cassetti , a notorious gangster responsible for the kidnapping and murder of a young girl named Daisy Armstrong years earlier in America [2, 4, 6, 17].