MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
By Agatha Christie
When world-famous detective Hercule Poirot boards the luxurious Orient Express train in Istanbul, Turkey, he's just hoping for a relaxing trip home. However, his vacation is short-lived after one of the train's passengers, an unlikable millionaire, is murdered. As Poirot begins to investigate, he soon realizes that everybody aboard the train is a suspect. Agatha Christie was perhaps the world's most famous authors of "whodunnit" mysteries, and Murder on the Orient Express is one of her most famous stories.
The Orient Express is a real passenger train that has operated in some form since 1883 in Europe. Its name has been synonymous with luxurious train travel. The service was created by Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-Lits and most famously traveled between Istanbul, Turkey, and Paris, France. The original Orient Express ended service in 2009, but Venice-Simplon Orient Express continues to operate between London, England, and Venice, Italy, using original Wagon-Lits railway cars.
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"The Queen of Crime"
Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two diverse characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. She is considered to be the best selling writer of all time. Only the Bible is known to have outstripped her collected sales of roughly four billion world wide copies. Her works have been translated into more languages than any other individual writer. To learn more about Christie's life, click here. --biography.com More links |