Murder on the 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 JenniferRobb

I will say I liked this entry in the Poirot series the best of the ones I've read so far, but even that hasn't raised the book much above a 3 for me. I think that has a lot to do with the main character. It did have a different solution than what I'd thought it might be. (I had seen the remake of...

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...