A review by sarah_lamper
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

4.0

Not her best work, not my favorite of hers, but still a solid one. It’s fun watching her writing get better through the series. This is also the first Poirot book written in third person rather than first person which is interesting. Not necessarily good or bad, just different. However, because of that it does take over a quarter of the book to finally meet Poirot in this one. He’s a funny little man and I like seeing him a bit more in his books. You can also see Agatha Christie develop the idea for Murder on the Orient Express and how it came to her. This is like a precursor, a warm up for her. Very excited to read it.