But Poirot also came up with another possible explanation – that a stranger had boarded the train, committed the crime and then escaped unnoticed. This was the account which the director of the company operating the Orient Express presented to the police, meaning that the true culprits ultimately escaped punishment.
The evolution since the creation of a unified state Following a struggle lasted half a century, political unification was achieved in 1861, though still partial: Rome and Venice joined the new kingdom only in the following ten years.