Murder on the Orient Express - Hardcover

Christie, Agatha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062424750 ISBN 13: 9780062424754

Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW, 2015

Synopsis

A stunning facsimile edition of the original Agatha Christie hardcover--the legendary author's most famous book, and Hercule Poirot's most famous case.

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the 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.

With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.

Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family's archive, Murder on the Orient Express Facsimile Edition also features the first hardcover edition's actual cover art, which has been painstakingly restored to its original beauty.

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Review:

"What more...can a mystery addict desire?"--New York Times

"A brilliantly ingenious story."--Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald (UK)

"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, New York Times bestselling author

"[Moves] smoothly and entertainingly to its surprise conclusion."--Chicago Daily Tribune

"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)

"Agatha Christie's books are both wonderful crime novels and studies in contrast and duality, and I adore them still. Underestimate them at your peril."--Louise Penny, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache novels

"Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction."--Tana French, New York Times-bestselling author of the Dublin Murder Squad novels

"Agatha Christie taught me many important lessons about the inner workings of the mystery novel before it ever occurred to me that I might one day be writing mysteries myself."--Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Kinsey Millhone novels

"Any mystery writer who wants to learn how to plot should spend a few days reading Agatha Christie. She'll show you everything you want to know."--Donna Leon, New York Times-bestselling author of the Commissario Brunetti novels

Book Description:

‘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

About this edition

• Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062424750
• ISBN 13: 9780062424754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256