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A mysterious stranger boarded the train at a previous stop, murdered Ratchett, and escaped into the snow [4, 10].

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 ? Assassinio sull'Orient Express

The climax of the story reveals a unique and controversial solution. Poirot presents two possible explanations for the crime [4, 10]: A mysterious stranger boarded the train at a

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]. Bouc choose to present the simple solution to

On the second night of the journey, the train is halted by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia [2, 7, 8]. The next morning, Samuel Ratchett, a wealthy American businessman, is found dead in his locked compartment, having been stabbed twelve times [2, 17, 19].

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].