Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Series)

by Agatha Christie

Overview

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Ecpress in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of 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...Red herrings galore are put in the path of Hercule Poirot to try to keep him off the scent, but in adramtic denouement he succeeds in coming up with not one but two solutions to the crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062081537
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/29/2011
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	346
Sales rank:	55,926
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976. Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of nine psychological thrillers, which have been published in more than 20 countries and adapted for television. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and as a poet has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

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What People are Saying About This

Lawrence Block

“It’s tempting to say that Agatha Christie is a genius and let it go at that, but the world’s had plenty of geniuses. Agatha Christie is something special.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

“A brilliantly ingenious story.”

Editorial Reviews

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Library Journal

Nothing short of swell. [Christie] is probably the best suspicion scatterer and diverter in the business.

New York Herald Tribune

Need it be said—the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end.

Times Literary Supplement (London)

[Moves] smoothly and entertainingly to its surprise conclusion.

Chicago Daily Tribune

What more…can a mystery addict desire?

New York Times

A brilliantly ingenious story.

Dorothy L. Sayers

It’s tempting to say that Agatha Christie is a genius and let it go at that, but the world’s had plenty of geniuses. Agatha Christie is something special.

Lawrence Block

"Need it be said—the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end."

Time Magazines Literary Supplement (London)