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Murder on the Orient Express (original 1934; edition 2002)

by Agatha Christie, David Suchet (Narrator)

Series: Hercule Poirot (8)

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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.… (more)
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Title:Murder on the Orient Express
Authors:Agatha Christie
Other authors:David Suchet (Narrator)
Info:HarperCollins, Ltd
Collections:Your library
Rating:*****
Tags:mystery, Hercule Poirot, Orient Express, Istanbul, audible, 2013

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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934)

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3.5… gonna start reading more agatha christie ( )
  highlandcow | Mar 13, 2024 |
I was drawn to this book by the cover. Murder mystery and a train? Two of my favorite things! I'm so thankful I found this book. It captured me from the first page and kept me on the edge of my seat, something that is hard to do with my wandering mind. Maybe it was just me, but it was difficult to suss out who was lying or being truthful, but it was fun to draw my own conclusions and see if I was right about who done it! The ending through me for a loop and I lost my mind!

I recommend this book 100%! You won't regret reading it. ( )
  AnnoyingTiger888 | Feb 19, 2024 |
Queen of the Genre

This novel is only the second Agatha Christie mystery I have read. It is hardly a wonder that her books sell so well because they are relatively short and intricately laid out. Certainly a page turner. Fourteen people plus a train conductor occupy a sleeper car on the Orient Express traveling from Istanbul to Paris that gets stuck in the snow in Yugoslavia. One of them is murdered and one of them happens to be famed detective Hercule Poirot. There are also the director of the train line and a physician lodged in a different car, who are foils for Poirot's ruminations. Those are the ingredients of this perfect "locked room" murder mystery. My only criticism is the long soliloquies that tell rather than show. I found my attention wandering during them. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Good, classic mystery from way back when. ( )
  dlinnen | Feb 3, 2024 |
A fun 'closed room' mystery, of a sort. This is a classic for a good reason. Relatively short and to the point, yet still fascinating. ( )
  Karlstar | Jan 28, 2024 |
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The book is filled with entertaining and descriptive events that will leave readers anticipating more.
 
Estambul, pleno invierno. Poirot decide tomar el Orient Express que en esta época suele hacer su recorrido prácticamente vacío. Pero aquel día, el tren va lleno y sólo gracias a una buena amiga consigue una litera en el coche-cama. A la mañana siguiente se despierta, descubre que una tormenta de nieve ha obligado a detener el tren y que un americano, llamado Ratcher, ha sido apuñalado salvajemente. Aparentemente nadie ha entrado ni ha salido del coche-cama. El asesino, sin duda, es alguno de los ocupantes entre los que se encuentra una altiva princesa rusa y una institutriz inglesa.
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Christie, Agathaprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Blok, MauriceIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Branagh, KennethNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cassar, MiriamTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Davidson, AndrewIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Del Buono, OresteContributorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fearnley, John YngvarMedarb.secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Figueira, ArchibaldoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Givanel, JohannaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gomes, AlbertoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Isberg, MärtaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Κυριαζής, ΑχιλλέαςTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Βόμβα, ΆμυTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Λοράνδος, ΛουκάςTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Karro, LeenaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Liebe, Poul IbTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Machado-Quevedo, EduardoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Mendel, Jean-MarcTraductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nordberg, NilsAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Perez, JosephAuthorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pitta, AlfredoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Postif, LouisTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Quevedo, Eduardo MachadoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rustan, HallgeirMedarb.secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sachs, AndrewReadersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Seeberg, Axel S.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stevens, DanNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Steyn-Dingjan, A. M. vanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Suchet, DavidNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Svedberg, Lars(Esitt.)secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wilkening, StefanSprechersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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"Colonel Arbuthnot smokes a pipe," he said. "In the compartment of Mr. Ratchett I found a pipe-cleaner. Mr. Ratchett smoked only cigars."....
Poirot shook his head violently. "That is just it...it is impossible—quite impossible—that an honourable, slightly stupid, upright Englishman should stab an enemy twelve times with a knife! Do you not feel, my friends, how impossible it is? "That is the psychology." said M. Bouc. "And one must respect the psychology. This crime has a signature, and it is certainly not the signature of Colonel Arbuthnot." (p. 121,122).
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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.

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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express is a 2006 point-and-click adventure game developed by AWE Productions and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows. The game is the second installment in The Adventure Company's Agatha Christie series. The setting is five years before the events in Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, with a largely unrelated storyline. The plot follows an amateur sleuth, Antoinette Marceau, and her investigation of a murder with twelve possible suspects aboard the Orient Express, which has been blocked by an avalanche in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during 1934. She is aided by famous detective Hercule Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express retains the main plot elements of Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. An additional ending is presented in the game which differs from the conclusion of Christie's novel. As with And Then There Were None, Christie's novel has been bundled with the game. Some reviewers of Murder on the Orient Express criticized the game because of the repetitive nature of tasks the player must complete, and also complained about the inefficient and cumbersome inventory system.
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