num_pages: 274
description: Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation. Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.
language: English
title: Murder on the Orient Express
titlecomplete: Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
characters: Countess Elena Andrenyi, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Caroline Martha Hubbard, Henry Masterman, Pierre Michel, Cyrus Hardman, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Hercule Poirot, Hector MacQueen, Antonio Foscarelli, Hildegarde Schmidt, Samuel Edward Ratchett, Colonel Arbuthnot, Greta Ohlsson, Mary Debenham, Dr. Constantine, Monsieur Bouc
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 585021
places: Orient Express, Yugoslavia
series: Hercule Poirot
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: HarperCollins