Book Bearings
Murder on the Orient Express
- 240 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1934
- 248 editions
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1 About this book
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.
- Private investigators
- Mystery
- Murder
- Humor
- Private investigators in fiction
- Mystery & detective, traditional
- Comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery
- Juvenile
2 What to expect
A classic Hercule Poirot mystery: a luxury train stuck in the snow, a passenger stabbed in his locked compartment, and a carriage full of suspects from many countries. Almost the whole book is interviews and deduction, as Poirot questions each traveler in turn and weighs the evidence. It is short, tidy and cleverly built, and its solution is among the best known in crime fiction, so avoid reading about it beforehand.
Good for readers who want: a classic detective puzzle, 1930s train travel, and a short, clever read.
3 About Agatha Christie
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Agatha Christie
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