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* [[Closed Circle]]: Not only are they on a train, but trapped in a snowdrift.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The 2010 adaptation, in spades.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Most of the people directly involved in the Daisy Armstrong case.}}▼
* [[Eagle Land]]: The portrayal of the U.S. makes it obvious that Christie didn't know very much about it. For example, Poirot says that it is "obvious" that the Hungarian ambassador stationed in Washington D.C. must have been acquainted with the Armstrongs, a prominent family from Chicago.
** Caroline Hubbard embodies this whenever the opportunity presents itself {{spoiler|Then again, it's all an act.}}
** The Americans are also referred to as subjects rather than citizens. Of course, it is Poirot and Bouc doing this, and they might not consider the distinction to be important.
▲* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Most of the people directly involved in the Daisy Armstrong case.}}
* [[Enclosed Space]]: Being snowed in was the only reason the crime wasn't a total success.
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: Deconstructed. Many murder mysteries set up the plot so that every character had a motive; but why would someone be in a situation where everyone in the vicinity has a motive to kill them? If the whole situation is the result of a conspiracy plotted by all the people with a motive to bring the victim among them.
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* [[Off on a Technicality]]: How Ratchett managed to walk free after the killing of Daisy Armstrong. He still recognised that the public would have torn him apart the moment he left court, hence why he fled America and changed his name.
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: The passengers all are closely connected.
* [[Orient Express]]: Obviously.▼
* [[Orgy of Evidence]]: Not only are there a dozen suspects with a connection to the victim, but there are also a misplaced match, a pipe cleaner, a handkerchief, a button from a railway worker's uniform, a watch broken at entirely the wrong time, and sightings of a woman in a red kimono. Poirot, to his credit, dismisses most of these fairly quickly as [[Red Herring|Red Herrings]].
▲* [[Orient Express]]: Obviously.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: The victim had been guilty of the kidnapping and murder of a small child years before. {{spoiler|Poirot finds the man is so deserving of his murder that he decides ''not'' to turn the murderer over to the police, and even offers them a theory of how the murderer escaped the train which is as plausible as it is false.}}
* [[Pinkerton Detective]]: Cyrus Hardman in the 1974 film version. The original novel has him employed by McNeil's.
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