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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 9)

by Agatha Christie

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  • Oct 2017, 272 pages
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From the Queen of Mystery, the exclusive authorized edition of the most widely read mystery of all time—now a major motion picture directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by Ridley Scott!

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.

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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. I think Phyllis would be happy about that since she likes Agatha Christie
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Which of Agatha Christie’s mysteries have you read? Do you have a favorite, and if so, what about it do you like?
It's really tough to find them surprising, @Colleen_K because so many of them have been made into movies. Once you know "whodunnit" there's really no way to find as much enjoyment in the books themselves, unfortunately. I remember reading several of them for the first time when I was young, thoug...
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"[Moves] smoothly and entertainingly to its surprise conclusion." —Chicago Daily Tribune

"What more…can a mystery addict desire?" —New York Times

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Agatha Christie

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, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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