description: Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Ecpress in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year, but by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside...Red herrings galore are put in the path of Hercule Poirot to try to keep him off the scent, but in adramtic denouement he succeeds in coming up with not one but two solutions to the crime.
language: English
title: Murder on the Orient Express
titlecomplete: Murder on the Orient Express
characters: Countess Elena Andrenyi, Cyrus Hardman, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Dr. Constantine, Monsieur Bouc, Mary Debenham, Hector MacQueen, Antonio Foscarelli, Caroline Martha Hubbard, Henry Masterman, Samuel Edward Ratchett, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Hildegarde Schmidt, Pierre Michel, Greta Ohlsson, Hercule Poirot, Colonel Arbuthnot
genres: Fiction, Detective, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Adult, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Classics
ratings_count: 585497
places: Orient Express, Yugoslavia
series: Hercule Poirot
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Macmillan Audio