I am reading through the novels of Agatha Christie in the order in which they were written and writing a review on each one.
Murder on the Orient Express
1934
Description
Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
My Thoughts
This is the 19th book by Agatha Christie and the 9th Poirot Mystery
One of the best known of her mysteries and perhaps even the best known especially because it had already had 3 TV/Movie adaptations (with 3 different actors playing Hercule Poirot) before they brought out the latest one with Kenneth Brannagh.
It can't be easy to confine your story to one location and also the confines of a train.
Yes you have the characters and the location but having them all in such close proximity must have added constraints to the setting of clues and the movement of the characters just showing how good our famous author is at her craft.
Is there anyone left who does not know the perpetrator of this crime?
This is the second most well-known of Miss Christie's books (first being "And Then There Were None"
Many people who haven't even read the book or seen any of the adaptations already know the outcome of this story but if you do not then you definitely should read it as it is a very well-written book and brings out compassion and hatred together.
I always thought it was so famous that everyone must know but more recently there was a new adaptation of the story and I had to realise that there is a different generation of people who are being introduced to Agatha Christie's works just now. I suppose that is the joy of books that they can go on for generations being enjoyed by more and more people.
If you do know the outcome and have not read it you still should to see how she links everything together.
Here is a link to a list of her novels on Amazon
Books by Agatha Christie
If thinking of reading this book in the future why not pin this pic to go back to later.
