Murder on the Orient Express Contents
Murder on the Orient Express quotes
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Hercule Poirot: No! Lieutenant, you lie to Poirot. You say that you were in the barracks by midnight, but Poirot has proved this to be false. At a quarter to one in the morning you were seen over two miles away in the company of the woman who died. General, this is not a murder, as is suggested by the Palestinian police, but I do believe the lieutenant lied about his whereabouts, first out of panic and then, by sticking to this *lie*, but reinforcing it with *lie* after *lie* for weeks and weeks of deception, he has heaped suspicion and a deep shame on himself, his regiment, and his wife. General, the neck of this woman was not broken by the human hand but by a fall.
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Hector MacQueen: I met Mr Ratchett when I was on my uppers in, um... Iraq we call it now, don't we? He needed a personal assistant who was good with languages, which I am, and he paid well.
Hercule Poirot: And he could not speak the languages?
Hector MacQueen: Not a word. A little pidgin Italian, which even Italian pigeons would have found hard to understand.