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Why does the Armstrong story seem familiar?
It's a close copy of the Lindbergh kidnapping case. In 1932, Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son was kidnapped from his home in New Jersey, and a body believed to be (but never formally identified as) the baby's was found some months later. A man named Bruno Hauptmann was arrested and eventually executed for the crime, but the evidence is not conclusive and he himself maintained his innocence throughout. The Lindbergh's maid, Violet Sharpe, was suspected of complicity and committed suicide. The rest of the circumstances match the book less exactly; for example, Charles Lindbergh was American, not English, and he didn't shoot himself. You can read more about this at your local library or by googling "Lindbergh baby."
In 1934, when Murder on the Orient Express was published, the Lindbergh case would have been fresh in everyone's mind. Not too surprising that an author would rewrite history to track down the man responsible and mete out a most ferocious and final punishment for a crime that in real life went unsolved.
