Hercule Poirot book 8 · 1934
Murder on the Orient Express
The Orient Express is stopped by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia, and in the morning an American businessman is found stabbed many times in his locked compartment. Hercule Poirot, travelling on the train, must find the killer among the passengers.
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Book facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Series
- Hercule Poirot, book 8 of 33
- Published
- 1934
- Setting
- Set in London
- Characters charted
- 1
- Chart confidence
- High
Murder on the Orient Express on screen
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974, film, Cinema). Albert Finney leads an all-star cast as Poirot, who must solve a murder on a snowbound train.
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–2013, series, ITV). David Suchet plays Poirot in seventy episodes that adapt every Poirot novel and almost all the stories.
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017, film, Cinema). Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as Poirot in a lavish new version of the snowbound train mystery.
Who is in Murder on the Orient Express
1 recurring or key character from Agatha Christie’s chart.
Lead 1
- Hercule PoirotBelgian detective who relies on his “little grey cells”Also in books by Sophie Hannah