World bestseller of the Twentieth Century Fox studio!
The novel “Murder on the Orient Express” in its significance for the world action-packed genre stands next to “Ten Little Indians”; More than one generation of now famous authors grew up on it. This is an example of how to write a “closed space detective story.” The significance of this cult novel has only increased due to several brilliant film adaptations that have become world film classics.
Agatha Christie is the most published author of all time after Shakespeare. The circulation of her books is second only to that of his works and the Bible. More than a billion Christie books have been sold worldwide in English and the same number in other languages. She is the author of eighty detective novels and short story collections, twenty plays, two books of memoirs, and six psychological novels, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have forever become exemplary heroes of the action genre.

The great detective Hercule Poirot, who was in Istanbul, returns to England on the famous Orient Express, in which, it seems, representatives of every possible nationality are traveling with him. One of the passengers, an unpleasant American named Ratchett, offers Poirot to become his bodyguard, as he believes he is destined to be killed. The famous Belgian brushes off this absurd request. And the next day, the American is found dead in his compartment, with the doors closed and the window open. Poirot immediately begins to investigate – and discovers that the compartment is full of all sorts of clues pointing to... practically all the passengers of the Orient Express. To make matters worse, the train gets stuck in a snowdrift in a deserted area. Poirot must find the killer before the express continues its journey…

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“She is undoubtedly a genius.” — Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author

“Christie is generally regarded as a brilliant master of the suspense plot. But she is something far more.” — The Guardian

“When it comes to murder drama, no one is more inventive than Christie.” — Sunday Times

“…I still adore Christie novels.” — Louise Penny

“Reading a Christie novel is like biting into a ripe apple: pure, crisp, and utterly satisfying…” — Tana French

“What more could a mystery fan want?” — New York Times