num_pages: 295
description: THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again. “What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?” — New York Times
language: English
title: Murder on the Orient Express
titlecomplete: Murder on the Orient Express
characters: Hercule Poirot, Caroline Martha Hubbard, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Dr. Constantine, Monsieur Bouc, Countess Elena Andrenyi, Samuel Edward Ratchett, Colonel Arbuthnot, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Mary Debenham, Henry Masterman, Antonio Foscarelli, Hildegarde Schmidt, Greta Ohlsson, Hector MacQueen, Cyrus Hardman, Pierre Michel
genres: Classics, Mystery, Adult, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 585078
places: Orient Express, Yugoslavia
series: Hercule Poirot
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Impress Mystery