东方快车谋杀桉英文版Murder_on_the_Orient_Express.doc

Part I - THE FACTS Chapter 1 AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER ON THE TAURUS EXPRESS It was five oclock on a winters morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It consisted of a kitchen and dining-car, a sleeping-car and two local coaches. By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young French lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache. It was freezingly cold, and th