![]() ![]() As a result, readers are consciously or unconsciously led astray from the even-more-outlandish but true scenario. By framing a two-murderer scenario as weird but possible or even probable, Christie indicates, without saying it explicitly, that a scenario involving twelve murderers is impossibly intricate and unlikely. With this implication, Christie sets her readers' expectations regarding which theories of the case are sensible, which are crazy-sounding but possible, and which are unacceptably ridiculous. In this line, Poirot implies that the two-murderers hypothesis is theatrical and unlikely-sounding, despite the fact that it may be the only explanation available. This moment in the text is a masterful instance of writerly manipulation. Constantine, Poirot draws what seems like an outlandish, larger-than-life conclusion: that Ratchett was attacked by not one but two people independently of one another. Immediately after examining Ratchett's body with Dr. The Second Murderer came in in the dark, did not see that his or her work had been done and stabbed at least twice a dead body." Hercule Poirot The First Murderer stabbed his victim and left the compartment, turning off the light. "We have here a hypothesis of the First and Second Murderer, as the great Shakespeare would put it. ![]()
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