Murder on the Orient Express [Abridged] - Detective English Readers

Agatha Christie

SBS / Chancerel International Publishers Ltd.

1998

63 páginas

2h 6m

ISBN-10: 1899888381

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

STUDENT`S BOOK PLUS CD (Inglês Britânico) / An exercise section and glossary is included at the back od the book.
The CD contains a dramatised reading of the story. Every page of the book or exercise is a separate track of the CD.

|...| Detective English is a series of detectives readers, using dramatic picture-strip illustrations and a specially written text graded for foreign learners of English. Each book consists of a classic story by a well-known detective writer. The story is also dramatized on the accompanying cassette. (sold separatedely). At the back of each book is a section of highly motivating language exercises for the student including comprehension, summary writing, grammar revision, listening and pronunciation tasks. There is also a short glossary with supporting illustrations and phonetic transcriptions.

“What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?” — New York Times.

“A brilliantly ingenious story.” (Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald (UK).

“It’s tempting to say that Agatha Christie is a genius and let it go at that, but the world’s had plenty of geniuses. Agatha Christie is something special.” (Lawrence Block, New York Times bestselling author).

“[Moves] smoothly and entertainingly to its surprise conclusion.” (Chicago Daily Tribune).

“Nothing short of swell. [Christie] is probably the best suspicion scatterer and diverter in the business.” (New York Herald Tribune)

“Need it be said—the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end.” (Times Literary Supplement (London).

[About the Author]: Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926) and "Ten Little Niggers" (1939); and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.