Murder on the Orient Express - wikipedia Murder on the Orient Express For other uses, see Murder on the Orient Express ( disambiguation ). Murder on the Orient Express Dust - jacket illustration of the first UK edition Author Agatha Christie Cover artist Unknown Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Crime novel Publisher Collins Crime Club Publication date 1 January 1934 Media type Print ( hardback & paperback ) Pages 256 pp ( first edition, hardcover ) Preceded by The Hound of Death Followed by Unfinished Portrait Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach, by Dodd, Mead and Company. The U.K. edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence ( 7 / 6 ) and the U.S. edition at $2.00. The U.S. title of Murder in the Calais Coach was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the United States as Orient Express. Contents 1 Plot 2 Reception 3 References and allusions 4 Adaptations 4.1 Radio 4.2 Film 4.2. 1 Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) 4.2. 2 Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017 ) 4.3 Television 4.3. 1 Murder on the Orient Express ( 2001 ) 4.3. 2 Agatha Christie 's Poirot : `` Murder on the Orient Express '' ( 2010 ) 4.3. 3 Japanese TV adaptation ( 2015 ) 4.4 Computer game 5 Publication history 6 References 7 External links Plot The railway station passenger terminal in Vinkovci, Croatia After taking the Taurus Express from Aleppo in Syria to Istanbul, private detective Hercule Poirot arrives at the Tokatlian Hotel. There he receives a telegram prompting him to return to London. He instructs the concierge to book a first - class compartment on the Simplon - Orient Express, leaving that night. Although the train is fully booked, Poirot obtains a second - class berth, but only with the intervention of a friend and fellow Belgian who is also boarding the train, M. Bouc, a director of the railway, Compagnie Internationale des Wagons - Lits. Aboard the train, a malevolent, elderly American, Samuel Ratchett, attempts to hire Poirot because he believes his life is threatened, but Poirot refuses out of distaste for the man. In Belgrade, on the second night of the journey, two extra coaches are added to the train and M. Bouc he gives up his first - class compartment to Poirot and moves to a different coach himself. That compartment adjoins Ratchett 's. The train is stopped by a snowdrift near Vincovci ( sic ). Among the several events that disturb Poirot 's sleep is a cry from Ratchett 's compartment. The next morning, M. Bouc informs him that Ratchett has been murdered and asks Poirot to investigate. When Poirot and Dr. Constantine examine Ratchett 's compartment, Poirot finds a note with the words ' - member little Daisy Armstrong ' on it, which leads him to doubt Ratchett 's identity. A few years before, three - year - old heiress Daisy Armstrong was kidnapped by a man named Lenfranco Cassetti, who collected a ransom and killed the child. Cassetti was caught but fled the country after he was acquitted on a technicality. Poirot concludes that Ratchett and Cassetti are one and the same. Poirot proposes two possible solutions : either that a stranger boarded the train and murdered Cassetti, or that every one of the passengers, who had a connection to the Armstrongs, had all conspired to kill Cassetti together. The ostensible Mrs. Hubbard, in fact Daisy Armstrong 's grandmother, the famous actress Linda Arden, confesses the truth of the second solution, yet M. Bouc and Dr. Constantine choose to present the first of the two to the Yugoslav police. Reception The Times Literary Supplement of 11 January 1934 outlined the plot and concluded that `` The little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs. Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end. '' In The New York Times Book Review of 4 March 1934, Isaac Anderson wrote, `` The great Belgian detective 's guesses are more than shrewd ; they are positively miraculous. Although both the murder plot and the solution verge upon the impossible, Agatha Christie has contrived to make them appear quite convincing for the time being, and what more than that can a mystery addict desire ? '' The reviewer in The Guardian of 12 January 1934 noted that the murder would have been `` perfect '' ( i.e., a perfect crime ) had Poirot not been on the train and also overheard a conversation between Miss Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot before he boarded ; however, `` The ' little grey cells ' worked admirably, and the solution surprised their owner as much as it may well surprise the reader, for the secret is well kept and the manner of the telling is in Mrs. Christie 's usual admirable manner. '' Robert Barnard : `` The best of the railway stories. The Orient Express, snowed up in Yugoslavia, provides the ideal ' closed ' set - up for a classic - style exercise in detection, as well as an excuse for an international cast - list. Contains my favourite line in all Christie : ' Poor creature, she 's a Swede. ' Impeccably clued, with a clever use of the Cyrillic script ( cf. The Double Clue ). The solution raised the ire of Raymond Chandler, but wo n't bother anyone who does n't insist his detective fiction mirror real - life crime. '' The reference is to Chandler 's criticism of Christie in his essay The Simple Art of Murder. In December 2014, the novel was included in Entertainment Weekly 's list of the Nine Great Christie Novels. References and allusions Main article : Lindbergh kidnapping The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh 's son in 1932 inspired that element in Christie 's novel two years later. An innocent, but perhaps loose - lipped, maid employed by Lindbergh 's parents was suspected of involvement in the crime. After being harshly interrogated by police, she committed suicide. Two less notable events helped inspire her novel : Agatha Christie 's first journey on the Orient Express in late 1928, and a blizzard near Cherkeskoy, Turkey, that marooned an Orient Express for six days just a few months later, in February 1929. Flooding from rainfall that washed sections of track away in December 1931 halted Christie 's return from her husband 's archaeological dig at Nineveh aboard an Orient Express for twenty four hours. Her authorised biography details that event in a complete quotation of a letter to her husband, which describes several passengers on her train who inspired both the plot and the characters in her novel, including an American Mrs. Hilton, who inspired Mrs. Hubbard. Adaptations Radio John Moffatt starred as Poirot in a five - part BBC Radio 4 adaptation by Michael Bakewell, directed by Enyd Williams, and originally broadcast from 28 December 1992 -- 1 January 1993. André Maranne appeared as Bouc, Joss Ackland as Cassetti, Sylvia Syms as Mrs. Hubbard, Siân Phillips as Princess Dragomiroff, Francesca Annis as Mary Debenham, and Peter Polycarpou as Dr. Constantine. In 2017, the streaming service Audible released another radio adaptation that featured Tom Conti as the voice of Poirot. The voice cast also featured Sophie Okonedo as Mary Debenham, Eddie Marsan as Cassetti, and narration from Art Malik. Film Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) Main article : Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 film ) The book was made into a 1974 movie directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin ; it was a critical and commercial hit and is now considered one of the best cinematic adaptations of Christie 's work ever. The film starred Albert Finney as Poirot, Martin Balsam as M. Bianchi, George Coulouris as Dr. Constantine, and Richard Widmark as Ratchett / Cassetti, with the remaining cast suspects including Sean Connery ( Arbuthnot ), Lauren Bacall ( Mrs. Hubbard ), Anthony Perkins ( McQueen ), John Gielgud ( Beddoes ), Michael York ( Count Andrenyi ), Jean - Pierre Cassel ( Pierre Michel ), Jacqueline Bisset ( Countess Andrenyi ), Wendy Hiller ( Princess Dragomiroff ), Vanessa Redgrave ( Mary Debenham ), Rachel Roberts ( Hildegard Schmidt ), Colin Blakely ( Hardman ), Denis Quilley ( Foscarelli ), and Ingrid Bergman, who won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Greta Ohlsson. Only minor changes were made for the film : Masterman was renamed Beddoes, the dead maid was named Paulette instead of Susanne, Helena Goldenberg became Helena Grünwald ( which is German for `` Greenwood '' ), Antonio Foscarelli became Gino Foscarelli, Caroline Martha Hubbard became Harriet Belinda Hubbard, and the train line 's Belgian / Flemish director, Monsieur Bouc, became instead an Italian director, Signor Bianchi. Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017 ) Main article : Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017 film ) On 16 June 2015, 20th Century Fox hired Kenneth Branagh to direct and star as Poirot in another film adaptation of the story, which was released on 3 November 2017. On 29 September 2016, the studio issued a press release announcing much of the cast, including Johnny Depp as Mr. Ratchett, Michelle Pfeiffer as Mrs. Hubbard, Penélope Cruz as Pilar Estravados ( a Hispanic version of Greta Ohlsson, the name coming from a character in Hercule Poirot 's Christmas ), Dame Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff, Sir Derek Jacobi as Masterman, Leslie Odom Jr. as Dr. Arbuthnot, Daisy Ridley as Mary Debenham, Lucy Boynton as Countess Andrenyi, Tom Bateman as M. Bouc, Manuel Garcia - Rulfo as Biniamino Marquez ( a Cuban version of Antonio Foscarelli ), Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen, Marwan Kenzari as Pierre Michel, Sergei Polunin as Count Andrenyi, Willem Dafoe as Gerhard Hardman, and Olivia Colman as Hildegarde Schmidt. Greta Ohlsson is renamed to Pilar Estravados ; the character of Colonel Arbuthnot is combined with Dr. Constantine to create Dr. Arbuthnot, a sniper who served under Colonel Armstrong in the war and had his medical school paid for by Armstrong ; and M. Bouc is changed from the director of the line to the director 's nephew. Added was a direct link for Poirot to the Armstrong kidnapping -- before Sonia 's death, John Armstrong wrote to Poirot for help. Also unlike the book, the kidnapping did not take place on Long Island but in New Jersey, where the Lindbergh Kidnapping took place. Susanne Michel is switched from Pierre Michel 's daughter to his sister. Cyrus Hardman poses as an Austrian scientist for part of the film. The last scene also sets up the possibility of Death on the Nile as a sequel. Television Murder on the Orient Express ( 2001 ) Main article : Murder on the Orient Express ( 2001 film ) A thoroughly modernised and poorly received made - for - TV version starring Alfred Molina as Poirot was presented by CBS in 2001. This version co-starred Meredith Baxter as Mrs. Hubbard and Leslie Caron as the Princess Dragomiroff ( renamed Señora Alvarado and portrayed as the widow of a South American dictator ). Poirot is portrayed as significantly younger and less eccentric than Christie 's detective, and is given a subplot involving a romantic relationship with Vera Rosakoff, who is loosely based on an infrequently recurring character of the same name. The story is updated to a contemporary setting, and four of the suspects ( Hildegard Schmidt, Cyrus Hardman, Edward Masterman and Greta Ohlssohn ) are deleted, as is Dr. Constantine. Agatha Christie 's Poirot : `` Murder on the Orient Express '' ( 2010 ) David Suchet reprised the role of Hercule Poirot in `` Murder on the Orient Express '' ( 2010 ), an 80 - minute movie - length episode of the television series Agatha Christie 's Poirot co-produced by ITV Studios and WGBH - TV, adapted for the screen by Stewart Harcourt. The original air date was 11 July 2010 in the United States, and it was aired on Christmas Day 2010 in the UK. The cast includes Dame Eileen Atkins as Princess Dragomiroff, Hugh Bonneville as Masterman, Jessica Chastain as Mary Debenham, Barbara Hershey as Mrs. Hubbard, Toby Jones as Cassetti, and David Morrissey as Colonel Arbuthnot. The character Cyrus Hardman ( the former American police officer turned private detective ) has been largely amalgamated with the chauffeur Foscarelli ( in as much as regards being the lover of the dead maid ) and Dr Constantine ( who in the novel is unrelated to the murders ) becomes a co-conspirator. The main difference from the novel is the additional element of Poirot 's Catholicism being brought to the forefront, and his personal and religious struggle with whether to expose the murderers or let them off the hook. The interior of the Orient Express was reproduced at Pinewood Studios in London, while other locations include the Freemason Hall, Nene Valley Railway, and a street in Malta ( shot to represent Istanbul ). Japanese TV adaptation ( 2015 ) A Japanese adaptation was broadcast over two nights in January 2015 on Fuji Television. The title was Orient Kyuukou Satsujin Jiken ( オリエント 急行 殺人 事件 ), and it featured several famous actors, including Ninomiya Kazunari ( 二宮 和 也 ), Matsushima Nanako ( 松嶋 菜々子 ), Tamaki Hiroshi ( 玉木 宏 ), Kichise Michiko ( 吉瀬 美智子 ), Nishida Toshiyuki ( 西田 敏行 ), and Sawamura Ikki ( 沢村 一樹 ). The main character, Suguro Takeru ( 勝呂 武 尊 ), modeled on Hercule Poirot, was played by actor Nomura Mansai ( 野村 萬 斎 ). The first night featured a storyline true to the original text, but set in Japan in 1933. In this version, the train was called Orient Kyuukou ( オリエント 急行 ), and ran from the western city of Shimonoseki ( 下関 ) to Tokyo ( 東京 ), with the train stopped by a small avalanche near Sekigahara ( 関ヶ原 ) in Gifu Prefecture ( 岐阜 県 ). The second night was an original story. Computer game Main article : Agatha Christie : Murder on the Orient Express The point and click computer game Agatha Christie : Murder on the Orient Express was released in November 2006 for Windows and expanded on Agatha Christie 's original story with a new playable central character as Hercule Poirot ( voiced by David Suchet ) is ill and recovering in his train compartment. Publication history 1934, Collins Crime Club ( London ), 1 January 1934, Hardcover, 256 pp. 1934, Dodd Mead and Company ( New York ), 1934, Hardcover, 302 pp. c. 1934, Lawrence E. Spivak, Abridged edition, 126 pp. 1940, Pocket Books ( New York ), Paperback, ( Pocket number 79 ), 246 pp. 1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, ( Penguin number 689 ), 222 pp. 1959, Fontana Books ( Imprint of HarperCollins ), Paperback, 192 pp. 1965, Ulverscroft Large - print Edition, Hardcover, 253 pp. ISBN 0 - 7089 - 0188 - 3 1968, Greenway edition of collected works ( William Collins ), Hardcover, 254 pp. 1968, Greenway edition of collected works ( Dodd Mead ), Hardcover, 254 pp. 1978, Pocket Books ( New York ), Paperback 2006, Poirot Facsimile Edition ( Facsimile of 1934 UK first edition ), 4 September 2006, Hardcover, 256 pp. ISBN 0 - 00 - 723440 - 6 2011, William Morrow ( HarperCollins ), Paperback, 265 pp. The story 's first true publication was the US serialisation in six instalments in the Saturday Evening Post from 30 September to 4 November 1933 ( Volume 206, Numbers 14 to 19 ). The title was Murder in the Calais Coach, and it was illustrated by William C. Hoople. The UK serialisation appeared after book publication, appearing in three instalments in the Grand Magazine, in March, April, and May 1934 ( Issues 349 to 351 ). This version was abridged from the book version ( losing some 25 % of the text ), was without chapter divisions, and named the Russian princess as Dragiloff instead of Dragomiroff. Advertisements in the back pages of the UK first editions of The Listerdale Mystery, Why Did n't They Ask Evans, and Parker Pyne Investigates claimed that Murder on the Orient Express had proven to be Christie 's best - selling book to date and the best - selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series. References Jump up ^ The Observer, 31 December 1933 ( p. Jump up ^ United States, Dept. of the Treasury ( 1935 ). Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series : 1934, Part 1, Volume 31. New Series. Washington D.C. : Copyright Office. p. 213. Retrieved 23 Mar 2015. Jump up ^ Coignard, Jerome ( 28 February 1934 ). `` Books -- and Their Makers ''. 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External links Murder on the Orient Express at the official Agatha Christie website Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) on IMDb Murder on the Orient Express ( 2010 ) on IMDb British Museum webpage on the Mallowans ' work at Arpachiyah Venice - Simplon Orient Express The train using original carriages from the Orient Express that Christie based her novel on Pera Palace Hotel where Christie supposedly wrote the novel, although this is not stated in either her official biography or her own Autobiography Agatha Christie 's Hercule Poirot Characters Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings James Harold Japp Ariadne Oliver Colonel Race Books Novels The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ) The Murder on the Links ( 1923 ) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ) The Big Four ( 1927 ) The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 1928 ) Peril at End House ( 1932 ) Lord Edgware Dies ( 1933 ) Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ) Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ) Death in the Clouds ( 1935 ) The A.B.C. Murders ( 1936 ) Murder in Mesopotamia ( 1936 ) Cards on the Table ( 1936 ) Dumb Witness ( 1937 ) Death on the Nile ( 1937 ) Appointment with Death ( 1938 ) Hercule Poirot 's Christmas ( 1938 ) Sad Cypress ( 1940 ) One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ( 1940 ) Evil Under the Sun ( 1941 ) Five Little Pigs ( 1942 ) The Hollow ( 1946 ) Taken at the Flood ( 1948 ) Mrs McGinty 's Dead ( 1952 ) After the Funeral ( 1953 ) Hickory Dickory Dock ( 1955 ) Dead Man 's Folly ( 1956 ) Cat Among the Pigeons ( 1959 ) The Clocks ( 1963 ) Third Girl ( 1966 ) Hallowe'en Party ( 1969 ) Elephants Can Remember ( 1972 ) Curtain ( 1975 ) The Monogram Murders ( 2014 ) Closed Casket ( 2016 ) Short story collections Poirot Investigates ( 1924 ) Murder in the Mews ( 1937 ) The Regatta Mystery ( 1939 ) The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories ( 1948 ) Three Blind Mice and Other Stories ( 1950 ) The Under Dog and Other Stories ( 1951 ) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ) Double Sin and Other Stories ( 1961 ) Poirot 's Early Cases ( 1974 ) Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories ( 1991 ) The Harlequin Tea Set ( 1997 ) While the Light Lasts and Other Stories ( 1997 ) Film adaptations Alibi ( 1931 ) Black Coffee ( 1931 ) Lord Edgware Dies ( 1934 ) The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ) Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ) Death on the Nile ( 1978 ) Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ) Appointment with Death ( 1988 ) Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017 ) Plays Alibi ( 1928 ) Black Coffee ( 1930 ) Peril at End House ( 1932 ) Wasp 's Nest ( 1937 ) The Yellow Iris ( 1937, radio ) Television adaptations Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ) Dead Man 's Folly ( 1986 ) Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ) Murder by the Book ( 1986 ) Agatha Christie 's Poirot ( 1989 -- 2013 ) episodes Murder on the Orient Express ( 2001 ) Agatha Christie 's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple ( 2004 -- 2005 ) Video games Agatha Christie : Murder on the Orient Express ( 2006 ) Agatha Christie : Death on the Nile ( 2007 ) Agatha Christie : Evil Under the Sun ( 2007 ) Agatha Christie : The ABC Murders ( 2009 ) See also Black Coffee Orient Express ( board game ) Miss Marple Agatha Christie 's fictional universe Category hide Works by Agatha Christie Universe Characters Hercule Poirot Miss Marple Tommy and Tuppence Ariadne Oliver Arthur Hastings Superintendent Battle Chief Inspector Japp Parker Pyne Mr. Harley Quin Colonel Race Lady Eileen `` Bundle '' Brent Sir Henry Clithering Raymond West Miss Felicity Lemon Countess Vera Rossakoff Locations St. Mary Mead Novels The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train The Seven Dials Mystery The Murder at the Vicarage The Sittaford Mystery Peril at End House Lord Edgware Dies Murder on the Orient Express Why Did n't They Ask Evans ? 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Question: who was the murderer on the orient express spoiler
Answer: every one of the passengers, who had a connection to the Armstrongs, had all conspired to kill Cassetti together