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Murder on the Orient Express
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of year. But by the morning there is one less passenger. An American lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside…Red herrings galore are put in the path of Hercule Poirot to try and keep him off the scent but in a dramatic dénouement he succeeds in coming up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.Year: 1934
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: On a train
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: On a train
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot. Also: Count Rudolph and Countess Helena Maria Andrenyi, Colonel Arbuthnot, M. Bouc, Dr. Constantine, Mary Debenham, Princess Drago-Miroff, Lieutenant Dubosc, Antonio Foscarelli, Cyrus Hardman, Mrs. Hubbard, Hector MacQueen, Edward Henry Masterman, Pierre Michel, Greta Ohlsson, Mr. Ratchett, Hildegarde SchmidtPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1934 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and as 'Murder in the Calais Coach' by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. Films: The novel was adapted in 1974 by EMI into a celebrity-studded film, starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. TV: Filmed for CBS in 2001 starring Alfred Molino as Poirot.Notes and reviews
The novel is based in part upon the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in the United States in 1932, when Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh paid a ransom of $50,000, but the baby was murdered nonetheless. The second incident that influenced the plot occurred in 1929, when the Orient Express train crossed the Turkish border and was snowbound for six days. "Hard to surpass." - Saturday Review of Literature. "Christie...keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." - Times Literary SupplementMurder methods:
One Stabbing.xxx
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