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Whom to trust?

By John Authers

Published: December 16 2008 12:32 | Last updated: December 16 2008 12:32

Wealthy investors, like everyone else, are facing the Murder on the Orient Express scenario.

In one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, a man is found dead in his compartment on the Orient Express. During the night, he has been stabbed 12 times. Hercule Poirot has to work out who among the 12 other occupants of the carriage is guilty. The evidence seems to point to all of them. And indeed, he reveals, all of them were guilty – they plotted together to kill the man and each stabbed him once.

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