Machine derived contents note: Contents -- 1 The Man with the White Hair 9 -- 2 M. le Marquis 16 -- 3 Heart of Fire 22 -- 4 In Curzon Street 28 -- 5 A Useful Gentleman 37 -- 6 Mirelle 49 -- 7 Letters 57 -- 8 Lady Tamplin Writes a Letter 67 -- 9 An Offer Refused 77 -- 10 On the Blue Train 84 -- 11 Murder 98 -- 12 At the Villa Marguerite 113 -- 13 Van Aldin Gets a Telegram 122 -- 14 Ada Mason's Story 128 -- 15 The Comte de la Roche 135 -- 16 Poirot Discusses the Case 143 -- 17 An Aristocratic Gentleman 142 -- 18 Derek Lunches 163 -- 19 An Unexpected Visitor 167 -- 20 Katherine Makes a Friend 176 -- 21 At the Tennis 183 -- 22 M. Papopolous Breakfasts 195 -- 23 A New Theory 202 -- 24 Poirot Gives Advice 207 -- 25 Defiance 215 -- 26 A Warning 223 -- 27 Interview with Mirelle 232 -- 28 Poirot Plays the Squirrel 246 -- 29 A Letter from Home 259 -- 30 Miss Viner Gives Judgment 271 -- 31 Mr. Aarons Lunches 281 -- 32 Katherine and Poirot Compare Notes 286 -- 33 A New Theory 293 -- 34 The Blue Train Again 297 -- 35 Explanations 303 -- 36 By the Sea 315.
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Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress - bailing out of a doomed marriage - is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has to go on. Until Mrs. Kettering's secret life begins to unfold ...