Murder on the Orient Express

a Hercule Poirot mystery

315 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 2011 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-207350-1
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OCLC Number:
715450544

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4 stars (4 reviews)

On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.

79 editions

Neat puzzle

4 stars

Murder on the Orient Express is certainly a decent "whodunnit", although at this point the conclusion of the story is so well-known that I can't really judge how well it was executed from the viewpoint of a reader without that prior knowledge. It's a quick, fluent read once you get used to Christie's vocabulary and style of writing, which is (unsurprisingly) rather antiquated in some passages. I was a little surprised at the untranslated French interjections and phrases; people who don't know at least a little French might stumble upon them.

All in all I found it to be a great book to read for fun in 2 days. Some of the details and the general way the pieces of the puzzle fit together ended up being pretty satisfying and less one-dimensional than I remembered from whatever movie adaptation I watched ages ago.

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Subjects

  • Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
  • Private investigators
  • Orient Express (Express train)
  • Fiction

Places

  • England