. The next morning the American is found dead of multiple stab wounds in the compartment next to Poirot’s. The situation is even more complicated as the train has becomes marooned in a snowdrift between the towns of Vincovci and Brod in Yugoslavia. Naturally Monsieur Bouc, with the local police unavailable because of the snow, calls upon Poirot to conduct the investigation. The suspects are quickly narrowed to the individuals who spent the night in the Calais coach. With the evidence left in the murderer berth examined and the suspects interviewed Poirot arrives on not one, but two solutions to the crime. Poirot calls for all the passengers in the Calais coach to meet in the dining cart were he puts forward his two solutions. Dr Constantine and Monsieur Bouc will decide on which one will be correct. Poirot solutions are:- The first solution is that a man disguised as a conductor entered the Orient Express on the station before the train became snowbound and entered Mr Ratchetts berth with a key and stabbed him twelve times. The murderer then left through the connecting doors between berths of Mr Ratchett and Mrs Hubbards dumping the knife in her room. Then on his way out he placed his conductors uniform in the suitcase of a passenger who was not in their berth at the time and left the train via their same entry before the train left the station.-The second solution is that all passengers in the Calais coach stabbed Mr Ratchett once explaining why all had watertight alibis as even the conductor was involved. It also explains why there was twelve different stab wounds on the body. Also they were all connected to Armstrong case and felt very close to the murdered child. It also explains why a carriage was fully booked out in the season when it is normally quite on the Orient Express. But if it was not for the train becoming snowbound and an unexpected traveler boarding the train they wo...
