Murder On the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

I've read this one several times from front to back as well as having watched the film quite a few times too. The film version is full of well known stars and well worth watching to get a good "feel" for the Orient Express itself. The book was first published in 1934 and my copy "Agatha Christie Signature Edition" was published in 2001. ~*~BACKGROUND/STORY TEASER~*~ Interestingly enough, the story is based partly on the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 in America, when a hefty ransom was paid for the safe return of the kidnapped child who was killed by the kidnappers even after receiving the ...

Agatha Christie, that great writer of detective novels, was enjoying huge success during the 1930s. Her books were both incredibly popular and critically acclaimed, and the author was riding on the crest of a wave, writing some of the best work of her career, including the first Miss Marple stories, The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) and The Thirteen Problems (1932). After finishing a collection of short stories about the supernatural, titled The Hound of Death (1933), Christie turned her attentions towards her next book. Christie was a frequent traveller at the time, journeying around Europe with her husband who was an archaeologist. She had seen the famous ...

this is the perfect book for any Agatha Christie fans or anyone who wants to try one for the first time. i have read it hundreds of times and watch the film version several times and i always notice new clues or hints each time. admittadely there are a few aspects which are quite predictable but the language is so clever and the plot is so intricate when the answer seems so simple that you can't help but be impressed. the plot starts of as the orient express makes one of its busiest journeys of the year, with many interesting charactors onboard including Hercule Poirot. But when one american passenger is stabbed a dozen times in the chest and the train gets ...