num_pages: 7
description: Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the 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.With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes 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, Dr. Constantine, Hercule Poirot, Monsieur Bouc, Samuel Edward Ratchett, Mary Debenham, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Greta Ohlsson, Hector MacQueen, Cyrus Hardman, Colonel Arbuthnot, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Henry Masterman, Pierre Michel, Hildegarde Schmidt, Caroline Martha Hubbard, Antonio Foscarelli
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Adult, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 584805
places: Yugoslavia, Orient Express
series: Hercule Poirot
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd