https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ The Plymouth Express is a short story by Agatha Christie which was first published in The Sketch in April 1923 in the U.K. The story was published in the U.S. in The Blue Book Magazine in January 1924. In 1951, the story appeared as part of the anthology The Under Dog and Other Stories published in the U.S. In the U.K., the story was anthologised and published as part of Poirot's Early Cases in 1974. This short story was expanded five years later into the full-length novel The Mystery of the Blue Train, with a very similar plot, but with names and details changed. A Hercule Poirot mystery. A young woman is found dead in a train compartment and her valuable jewels have been stolen. Her wealthy father asks Poirot to find her killer. Agatha Christie, in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, was born September 15, 1890, in Torquay, Devon, England and died January 12, 1976, in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. In Public Domain First published 1923 Ovi eBook Publishing 2024