- Title
- "Beautiful shining order": detective authority in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
- Creator
- Gulddal, Jesper
- Relation
- Clues Vol. 34, Issue 1, p. 11-21
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Drawing on the work of Pierre Bayard, this essay presents a “counterinvestigative” reading of Murder on the Orient Express (1934) that highlights how Christie’s novel undermines Poirot’s authority as a detective and thereby also undermines his solution. The essay argues that the dénouement fails to bring about complete transparency and reduce the literary complexity of Christie’s plot.
- Subject
- Pierre Bayard; Agatha Christie; Murder on the Orient Express; detective authority; Hercule Poirot
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319998
- Identifier
- uon:24034
- Identifier
- ISSN:1940-3046
- Language
- eng
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