num_pages: 288
description: Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again..
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: 584859
places: Orient Express, Yugoslavia
series: Hercule Poirot
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Pocket Books