Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)

SUMMARY: One of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by two real-life crimes and the author’s own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931. While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer. Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is aboard and launches a clever investigation into the curious assortment of passengers, of whom each seems to have a motive.

murder On The Orient Express. En Route To Paris, Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot Has Booked Winter Passage On The Fabled Orient Express. Among The Curious Assortment Of Fellow Passengers, One Wealthy American Holds A Unique Distinction: He Has Been Found Dead Of Multiple Stab Wounds In The Night Compartment Of The Calais Coach. By Dawn, Thirteen Travelers, Each Bearing A Secret, Will Find Themselves Suspect In The Most Ingenious Crime Poirot Has Ever Solved.

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this Dramatization Of Christie's Famous Murder Mystery Is Admirably Presented By The Bbc. Hercule Poirot Unravels A Murder When The Train From Istanbul To Paris--the Orient Express--is Stopped By A Snow Drift In The Balkans. Using His Flawless Logic And Innate Ability To Evaluate The Evidence, Poirot Solves The Mystery And The Dilemma Faced By The Occupants Of The Coach. The Various Narrators Who Portray The Story's Numerous Characters Are Uniformly Excellent, And The Sound Quality Is Good. Recommended For Most Mystery Collections.-- Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. Of Rhode Island Coll. Of Continuing Education Lib., Providence

***While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.*** Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. ***Fortunately, the brilliant Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot is also on board, having booked the last available berth.*** ***Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels***, owing no doubt to a combination of its romantic setting and the ingeniousness of its plot; its non-exploitative reference to the sensational kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh only two years prior; and a popular ***1974 film adaptation, starring Albert Finney as Poirot - one of the few cinematic versions of a Christie work that met with the approval, however mild, of the author herself.*** While en route from Syria to Paris in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the train is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train stranded and that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment