Book description
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking
cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie
fans and book lovers.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its
tracks. 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.
Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot
must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.
“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
“A brilliantly ingenious story.” Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald
“Ingenuity at its height … the idea is utterly novel, the setting a
model of realism, and the characters a versatile, attractive crew.”
Woman's Journal
“A piece of classic workmanship .. exquisite and wholly satisfying.”
News Chronicle Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became,
quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The
Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World
War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular
detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known
throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a
billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100
foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story
collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
