It strikes Poirot as odd that one day earlier Ratchett had offered him $20,000 for his protection. In the morning they discover that a most dreadful thing has happened – a passenger, an American millionaire by the name of Ratchett, has been savagely murdered during the night. Poirot, woken by a scream in the night, puts off investigating and goes back to sleep. All the passengers, including the Agatha Christie’s most adored and long-standing character, Belgian private detective, Hercule Poirot, are stuck halfway through their three-day pilgrimage across Eastern Europe. The book, with its striking crimson red cover, is designed to appeal to all Christie fans and to a new generation of readers.įirst published in 1934, the gripping story begins in the dead of night when the luxurious Orient Express train is caught in a ferocious snowstorm and has to halt its journey. Now, to coincide with a new, star-studded movie version starring Kenneth Branagh, Dame Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp, a special edition of her most famous mystery, Murder On The Orient Express, is being released. With sales of her detective novels at over a billion in the English speaking world and another billion in foreign languages, it’s no wonder she’s called the Queen of Crime. Only Shakespeare and the Bible have outsold Agatha Christie. The murderer is with us – on the train now.
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