Asesinato en el Orient Express

from antiquary

This is perhaps the mot famous of the Poirot novels and has been made into a BBC film I saw recently --good aside from some blatantly anti-Catholic additions. The plot is so well known I hardly need to say (spoiler warning) before commenting that (Like Roger Ackroyd) it is essentially a "very cle...

from DeltaQueen50

I first read Murder on the Orient Express over thirty years ago, but this is one of few Agatha Christie stories that I actually remembered the solution of. Therefore, it was interesting for me to read this book again and pick up some of the clues that were sprinkled throughout. I found this to be...

from DeltaQueen50

I first read Murder on the Orient Express over thirty years ago, but this is one of few Agatha Christie stories that I actually remembered the solution of. Therefore, it was interesting for me to read this book again and pick up some of the clues that were sprinkled throughout. I found this to be...

from AlexTheHunn

This is among Christie's finest - and that says a lot. Here we have Hercule Poirot pitting his wits against a train full of smart, sophisticated, people. Any one of them seems to have had the motive, desire and opportunity for committing murder. But who actually did it? Well, I have to say I neve...

from Bridgey

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie ***** I'm not really sure how, but after watching Poirot for a number of years on the TV I managed to never see Murder on the Orient Express, this at least meant that the plot was fresh to me and no surprises ruined. I have only read a few Agatha Chr...