Forget scrolling.
Sometimes the best escape is a good mystery.
Readers on Key Biscayne will have the chance to revisit one of Agatha Christie’s most enduring novels when the Ask Book Club gathers to discuss the classic “Murder on the Orient Express.”
The event, hosted by Marcie Horowitz, is slated for 12:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Key Biscayne Community Center’s Lighthouse Room.
The novel, which was published in 1934 and later turned into a film in 1974, features the work of private detective Hercule Poirot whose trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted by a murder.
Poirot is booked on the Taurus Express from Turkey to London and is riding along passengers including American widow Caroline Hubbard; English governess Mary Debenham; Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson; American businessman Samuel Ratchett, with his secretary/translator Hector MacQueen, and his English valet Edward Henry Masterman; Italian-American car salesman Antonio Foscarelli; Russian Princess Natalia Dragomiroff and her German maid Hildegarde Schmidt; Hungarian Count Rudolph Andrenyi and his wife Helena; English Colonel John Arbuthnot; American salesman Cyrus B. Hardman and Greek medical doctor Stavros Constantine.
During the trip, the train is stuck in a snowdrift between Vinkovic and Brod before Poirot hears a loud thump next door.
He observes a woman in a scarlet kimono going towards the washroom, then goes to sleep.
The next morning, with the train still stalled, Poirot learns that Ratchett has been murdered and the murderer is still aboard, having no way to escape in the snow.