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.

The book was firstly published in the UK on January 1, 1934. Murder on the Orient Express refers to a detective novel which is written by Agatha Christie, featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Fortunately, the brilliant Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot is also on board, having booked the last available berth. From The Baltimore Sun, November 2, 1933: Agatha Christie’s latest thriller, The Murder in the Calais Coach, deals with the murder of a kidnapper on the Orient Express, the murder being done by twelve persons variously associated with the family of the child who had been kidnapped and murdered. Murder in the Calais Coach (A Hercule Poirot Mystery) Paperback Januby Agatha Christie (Author) 14,182 ratings 4. Introduction of Murder on the Orient Express. 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. Addeddate 10:39:24 Externalmetadataupdate Identifier 09. 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. MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS) - COMPLETE SIX-PART SERIAL IN THE SATURDAY EVENING POST by Christie, Agatha (serial) Hoople, William. title of Murder in the Calais Coach was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the United States as Orient Express.

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