An edition of Murder on the Orient Express (1933)

Murder on the Orient Express

a Hercule Poirot mystery

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An edition of Murder on the Orient Express (1933)

Murder on the Orient Express

a Hercule Poirot mystery

  • 4.1 (92 ratings) ·
  • 1,016 Want to read
  • 67 Currently reading
  • 182 Have read

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.

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Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Pages
267

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
2017, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Le Crime De L'Orient-Express
Le Crime De L'Orient-Express
2015, Librairie des Champs-Elysees
in French
Cover of: Le Crime de l'Orient-Express
Le Crime de l'Orient-Express
2013, Editions du Masque
in French
Cover of: オリエント急行の殺人
オリエント急行の殺人
2011, Hayakawa Shobō
in Japanese
Cover of: Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express: a Hercule Poirot mystery
2011, Harper
in English
Cover of: Um crime no Expresso Do Oriente
Um crime no Expresso Do Oriente
2009, ASA
in Portuguese
Cover of: Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
2007, Harper
in English
Cover of: Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
2005, HarperCollins
in English
Cover of: Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
1994, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Le crime de I'Orient Express
Le crime de I'Orient Express
1970, Livre de Poche
in French
Cover of: Murder in the Calais Coach
Murder in the Calais Coach
1969, Pocket Books
in English

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Table of Contents

Cast of characters
The facts: An important passenger on the Taurus Express
The Tokatlian Hotel
Poirot refuses a case
A cry in the night
The crime
A woman
The body
The Armstrong kidnapping case
The evidence: The evidence of the wagon lit conductor
The evidence of the secretary
The evidence of the valet
The evidence of the American lady
The evidence of the Swedish lady
The evidence of the Russian princess
The evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi
The evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot
The evidence of Mr. Hardman
The evidence of the Italian
The evidence of Miss Debenham
The evidence of the German lady's-maid
Summary of the passengers' evidence
The evidence of the weapon
The evidence of the passengers' luggage
Hercule Poirot sits back and thinks: Which of them?
Ten questions
Certain suggestive points
The grease spot on a Hungarian passport
The christian name of Princess Dragomiroff
A second interview with Colonel Arbuthnot
The identity of Mary Debenham
Further surprising revelations
Poirot propounds two solutions.

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New York

The Physical Object

Pagination
267 pages ;
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26463552M
Internet Archive
murderonorientex0000chri
ISBN 10
0373003048
ISBN 13
9780373003044
OCLC/WorldCat
956952108

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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.

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