Dame Agatha Christie certainly knew how to spin well yarn, and her fruitful ability to write pages, Helped helped become the best -selling novelist of all time. Nowadays, she is considered the mother of a pleasant mystery of murder And she dominated the genre of light crime in the mid -20th century with the help of her two most famous smokes, Hercule Poor and Miss Marple. We are all familiar with the setup: vivid locations, attractive amateur detectives, suspected of the upper crust, which all have a motive and satisfying final discovery. However, while Christie's fiction was usually read without a threat, it was not over dipping in a fierce crime in real life for inspiration. Indeed, she tore the elements of "The Biggest Story of the Resurrection" directly from the front pages for one of its most popular novels.

Posted 14 years after Christie first unveiled Hercule's Poor in the "Mysterious Affair in Stylish" (1920), "Orient Express Murder" I saw that the author really expands his volume. She had previously made a mystery to Lokomotiva with the "mystery of the blue train", but this was something far more luxurious, set in the most luxurious way of transporting the European continent. With a large team of international suspects at hand to collapse intrigue, it will become probably the most famous whodunnit ever written.

Monsiier The Poar returns to London from Istanbul on the titular train as the US racketeer-business-business Samuel Rutchet approaches. Ratchet has received death threats and wants to hire protection detective, but finds the more repellent and turns the offer. The rejection proves to be fatal, as the train gets stuck in the Serbia and Ratchet bushing crossing was found to death in his bed.

The lighter is changing into action and finds a series of opposing clues, including a piece of paper named "Daisy Amstrong", a young girl who killed Rutchett during his bad old days as a gangster. Furthermore, the more reveals that 12 of his companions have to do with the killed child. It's pretty standard Christie's things, but the conclusion is one of the worst twists in the entire canon of Dame Agatha and is an unusually dark story involving kidnapping, killing children, suicide and broken life. What is appropriate, because Daisy Amstrong's tragic story reflected the frightening case of Lindberg's kidnapping that rocked the world two years earlier.

Five years after he achieved global fame because he became the first solo aviator to fly non-stop through the Atlantic, Colonel Charles Lindberg found himself in the headlines again under much more shocking circumstances. On the night of March 1, 1932, his 20-month-old son Charles August Lindberg Runior was abducted by his crib in the family's displaced family's property in Newu Jerseyers. The nurse of young children, Betty Go, noted that Charles Runior was missing and a ransom note was discovered demanding $ 50,000. Despite the serious warning of the kidnapper, police have been called up and the search for the premises has revealed that the culprit has received access through the Rasadnik window through a scale.

The news spread rapidly while hundreds of police officers were involved in the search for a missing child. Lindberg SR. And his wife Ann asked friends to touch in the hope of contacting the kidnappers, while the investigation was hampered by a series of false accolades. Even the criminal underworld has been involved in trying to break the case, with an indoor mafia al -Caponeoposting of a significant reward and promising to withdraw several wires if he is bailed. Authorities rejected his offer.

Five days after the abduction, the Colonel received a second note with an increase in the ransom to $ 70,000. Further series of notes over the following days included hand instructions. Lindberg pointed out his willingness to pay and the kidnappers sent the child's sleeping clothes as evidence of identity. Negotiations continued and the $ 50,000 payment was given to the man to identify as "Johnon" in exchange for another note that reveals where the baby is.

Unfortunately, the information was false, and Charles Lindberg Runior was found dead on May 12th. Huge evidence suggests that the child was killed not long after the abduction and his body was badly decomposed. J. Edgar Hoover has shed all the weight of the FBI behind the national investigation and the case claims that another victim on June 10. Violet Sharp, who worked for Ann Lindberg's mother, took his life when he came under suspicion.

More than two years after the abduction, a German migrant named Bruno Richard Hauttman was arrested and charged with extortion and murder. On February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first -degree murder and sentenced to death. The following year, Hauttman died in the electric chair.

The Lindberg kidnapping case made news around the world, probably drawing gasoline from Agatha Christie and she followed the story of her tea and towels in England. Gave also gave the idea of ​​a tragic backstew that motivated the events of "Orient Express Murder" for the first time in January 1934, while the investigation was ongoing. In the novel, a 20-month-old boy was turned off for a 3-year-old girl, but many of the key details remained the same. Daisy was also a child of a famous family, abducted from her bed and found dead after the ransom was paid. Similar to the real case, a family employee died of suicide after being charged with the crime, and Christie added two more tragic incidents in the sad story. Unlike Mr. and Mrs. Lindberg, Daisy's mother was wrong to make her second baby when her first child was killed, and her father was so affected by sadness that he was shot.

Suspects in Agatha Christie's novels usually have a wide range of motives, but the painful connection between Orient Express and Daisy Armstrong passengers gives the novel a far more comfortable tone. It also provides a difficult moral choice for Hercule Poor and its small gray cells when (spoiler warning) reaches an incredible but inevitable conclusion: everyone did. There is no doubt that Ratchet is a wicked excuse for a human being and he had it, but to what extent he could sympathize with the killers?

His possible decision lies long since the book is closed and the novel raises a disturbing question: Is there any circumstances when the justice of vigil becomes forgiven? These are dark things and we may doubt how delicious it is for Christie to use such a frightening case as the basis for the best -selling, but her inspiration was not a purely kidnapping of Lindberg. Orient Express travel was a lifelong dream for the author and she finally got her chance in 1931. Elements of her trip, including the train dramatically stuck in the snow, also found their way to the novel. "Orient Express killing" has since sold millions of copies and provided the original material for two of Best movies Agatha ChristieEspecially the 1974 Sidney Lumer version with Albert Fini in the form of Oscar -nominated as Hercule Poor.