Murder on the Orient Express

A snowdrift halts the Orient Express in open country, and by morning one passenger has been stabbed a dozen times behind a door bolted from inside. The dead man is a wealthy American; the train, unusually crowded for the season, holds every person who could possibly have done it. Hercule Poirot, travelling by chance, has no police force, no laboratory and nowhere for the killer to run, which leaves him with interviews, timetables and the small inconsistencies people leave behind when they lie. Agatha Christie's most famous novel is built on a closed circle of suspects and a solution that changed what readers expected from detective fiction. A closer look: • A locked-room mystery staged inside a stranded luxury train • Features Hercule Poirot working without any official support • Frequently cited as Christie's best-known and most adapted novel • Complete in itself, requiring no other Poirot titles first Essential reading for crime and mystery readers at every level, available from Boipoka.