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* {{Dedication}}: The book is dedicated to James Watts, Christie's brother-in-law, who complained that her murders are becoming "too refined" and wanted a story with a "good violent murder with lots of blood."
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* BlamingTheCuckold: Simeon Lee's marriage was a disaster, with Simeon constantly having affairs. Several characters, including, rather expectedly, Simeon himself, blame the fact on Mrs. Lee as well, stating she was TheEeyore who constantly sulked and complained rather than stand up to her husband, which he would have preferred.
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(the previous edit’s reasoning continued) happily framed and tried to kill innocent people. Actual sympathetic murderers in Orient Express went out of their way to make sure no innocent could be accused
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Simeon is of course an AH victim, but the text doesn’t have much sympathy for his killer either, considering the latter happ
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Superintendent Sugden's motive for killing his biological father, Simeon Lee, is revenge on behalf of his mother whom Lee seduced and callously tossed aside like a plaything.]]
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Pilar and Stephen Farr are '''both''' impostors, who opportunistically decided to take the identities of Simeon Lee's grand-daughter, and his best friend's son.
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:Superintendent Sugden of the local police, the investigating officer (with Poirot tagging along in his usual way) turns out to be the killer.]]
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:Superintendent Sugden of the local police, the investigating officer (with Poirot tagging along in his usual way) turns out to be the killer.]]
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Pilar [[spoiler:Pilar and Stephen Farr Farr]] are '''both''' ''both'' impostors, who opportunistically decided to take the identities of Simeon [[spoiler:Simeon Lee's grand-daughter, granddaughter and his best friend's son.
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* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:Superintendent Sugden of the local police, the investigating officer (with Poirot tagging along in his usual way) turns out to be thekiller.]]killer]].
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* InspectorLestrade: Seemingly played straight and then averted. Superintendent Sugden, while not stupid, seems like he is the standard police inspector character in Agatha Christie novels who asks all the wrong questions and accepts the easy answers while Poirot is the clever one who figures everything out. [[spoiler: This is all averted in the end when Sugden is exposed as the killer.]]
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* InspectorLestrade: Seemingly played straight and then averted.Subverted. Superintendent Sugden, while not stupid, seems like he is the standard police inspector character in Agatha Christie novels who asks all the wrong questions and accepts the easy answers while Poirot is the clever one who figures everything out. [[spoiler: This is all averted in the end when Sugden is exposed as the killer.]]
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On Christmas Eve, sounds of a fight and a dreadful scream are heard from Simeon’s locked room, and the old man is discovered lying dead in a huge pool of blood with no trace of his killer. Now the entire Lee clan, along with Stephen Farr, a son of Simeon's friend who was visiting as well, and three servants fall under suspicion. Who will solve this strange mystery? Luckily, famed Belgian detective Literature/HerculePoirot is in town.
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On Christmas Eve, sounds of a fight and a dreadful scream are heard from Simeon’s Simeon's locked room, and the old man is discovered lying dead in a huge pool of blood with no trace of his killer. Now the entire Lee clan, along with Stephen Farr, a son of Simeon's friend who was visiting as well, and three servants fall under suspicion. Who will solve this strange mystery? Luckily, famed Belgian detective Literature/HerculePoirot Franchise/HerculePoirot is in town.
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Superintendent Sugden's motive for killing his biological father, Simeon Lee, is revenge on behalf of his mother whom Lee seduced and callously tossed aside like a plaything.]]
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Why would the killer’s identity not be spoiler tagged? If the whole trope needs to be hidden, feel free to, but I don’t know if it needs to go that far.
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* InspectorLestrade: Seemingly played straight and then averted. Superintendent Sugden, while not stupid, seems like he is the standard police inspector character in Agatha Christie novels who asks all the wrong questions and accepts the easy answers while Poirot is the clever one who figures everything out. This is all averted in the end when Sugden is exposed as the killer.
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* InspectorLestrade: Seemingly played straight and then averted. Superintendent Sugden, while not stupid, seems like he is the standard police inspector character in Agatha Christie novels who asks all the wrong questions and accepts the easy answers while Poirot is the clever one who figures everything out. [[spoiler: This is all averted in the end when Sugden is exposed as the killer.]]
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: Simeon Lee's sons share their father's habit of throwing their heads back when laughing and StrokingTheChin. Including [[spoiler:his bastard son from South Africa]], and [[spoiler:his bastard son who [[DetectiveMole joined the police force...]]]].
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: Simeon Lee's sons share their father's habit of throwing their heads back when laughing and StrokingTheChin. [[StrokeTheBeard stroking the chin.]] Including [[spoiler:his bastard son from South Africa]], and [[spoiler:his bastard son who [[DetectiveMole joined the police force...]]]].
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* BucketBoobyTrap: A murderous variation, as the killer puts a decorative cannonball right over the door to Pilar's room, so that it will fall on her and crush her skull. She barely escapes.
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* SummationGathering: In standard Christie style, as Poirot tells everybody how they ''could'' have done it and uncovers some secrets (like the two different characters that are impersonating dead people) before naming the killer.
-->'''Poirot''': I wish to share with everyone the knowledge that I have acquired.
-->'''Poirot''': I wish to share with everyone the knowledge that I have acquired.
