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. Fortunately, the brilliant Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot is also on board, having booked the last available berth. As confirmed by Hardmans evidence, the murderer must be on the Staboul-Calais coach.
With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board.
Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. 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. 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. Publisher's full light yellow cloth, front and spine stamped in black. 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. En route to Paris, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has booked winter passage on the fabled Orient Express. Octavo (7.75 x 5.5 inches 197 x 141 mm.).
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