(may contain spoilers - click on expand to read)Īfter solving an important case in Aleppo Syria, Hercule Poirot boards the Taurus Express, heading for Istanbul and the Orient Express. At the request of the company's director, Poirot launches an investigation into the man's death and quickly discovers that there is no shortage of suspects among the travelers. The next morning the body of one of the passengers is found, the victim having suffered multiple uneven stab wounds.

During the first night of the trip, the train is forced to stop due to a snow drift that has partially obstructed the tracks. He travels back with a friend, a director of the Wagon Lit. Hercule Poirot is traveling when he is suddenly called back to London.

6.7 Murder on the Orient Express (2017).

6.6 Oriento kyuukou satsujin jiken (2015 Fuji TV Japanese mini-series).

6.5 Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express (2010).

6.4 Murder on the Orient Express (2001).

6.3 Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

6.2 Hercule Poirot klärt den Mord im Orient-Express auf (1955).

5.1 References to actual history, geography, and current science.

The illustrations are dramatic but occasionally the various artistic layouts sometimes lead to a mix-up in continuity (easily solved on a re-red of the relevant panels) - it did for me anyway!Ī nice addition to any Agatha Christie collection.

And thus begins his interrogations of each and every passenger, many of whom seem to have a motive to have committed the murder, begins.Īnd so the investigation goes on until Poirot has made up his mind and, as is his wont, gathers them all together to announce the denouement. The train is stuck in the snow, the maître d' (if I may call him that) of the Orient Express asks Poirot to solve the mystery 'before the Yugoslavian police starts poking its nose into the private lives of my passengers' and Poirot agrees. One must credit François Rivière and his English editor David Brawn in presenting Agatha Christie's classic novel in 46 pages - and with stirring and dramatic illustrations by Solidor - nothing is lost and Hercule Poirot (not the American dress designer Paul Poiret as one of the passengers suggested!) does his usual meticulous investigations to unmask the person who has committed the murder.

Murder on the orient express book