The Mystery of the Blue Train
- 258
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Mystery of the Blue Train” makes the most of its setting: who sat in which compartment and who left the train when is the heart of the puzzle. The telling moves among suspects and keeps Poirot almost in the background, which some readers find a refreshing change. Others count too many thinly drawn characters and an unsympathetic victim, and place it below the detective’s stronger cases.
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About the book
The Mystery of the Blue Train is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features her detective Hercule Poirot.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 291 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 31 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 260 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Mystery of the Blue Train?
It has 258 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Classics.
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