Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062689665 ISBN 13: 9780062689665

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017

Synopsis

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH

RELEASING NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Includes a photo insert of images from the film!

"The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ."

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.

Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

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

About this title

Review:

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

"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)

"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

"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

"I always wanted to be Agatha Christie when I grew up. I still do."--J. A. Jance, New York Times-bestselling author of the Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont novels

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0062689665
• ISBN 13: 9780062689665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288