Murder on the Orient Express
About this book
***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.***
Subjects
- agatha christie
- angol irodalom
- detective
- detective and mystery stories
- détectives
- dorian. grey (fictitious character)
- english detective and mystery stories
- english fiction
- english language, textbooks for foreign speakers
- english literature
- express trains
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- french fiction
- french imprints
- hercule poirot
- hercule poirot (fictional character)
- hercule poirot (fictitious character)
- humour
- investigation
- juvenile
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- literature
- littérature anglaise
- murder
- mystery
- mystery fiction
- novela policíaca
- orient express
- orient express (express train)
- p.i.
- poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- poirot, hercule (personaje literario)
- private investigator
- private investigators
- private investigators, fiction
- private investigators in fiction
- railroad
- railroad stories
- railroad travel
- readers
- regény
- roman anglais
- romans, nouvelles
- stories
- trains
- translations into french
- travel