Murder on the Orient Express

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Guide Note

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is a mystery novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. On a return trip from Istanbul, Poirot finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation when one of the train's passengers turns up dead.

Fast Facts

  1. Author: Agatha Christie
  2. Publication Date: January 1, 1934
  3. Genre: Crime novel
  4. Pages: 256 (first edition, hardcover)
  5. Narrator: Third-person limited
  6. Setting: The Orient Express, leaving Istanbul, Turkey
  7. Alternate Title: Murder in the Calais Coach

Characters

  • Victim:
    • Samuel Edward Ratchett - an unsavory-looking man with a dark secret
  • Suspects:
    • Hector MacQueen
    • Edward Henry Masterman
    • Mary Debenham
    • Colonel Arbuthnot
    • Princess Natalia Dragomiroff
    • Hildegarde Schmidt
    • Count Rudolph Andrenyi
    • Countess Elena Andrenyi
    • Greta Ohlsson
    • Mrs. Caroline Martha Hubbard
    • Antonio Foscarelli
    • Cyrus Bethman Hardman
  • Investigators:
    • The Detective - Hercule Poirot
    • The Director - M. Bouc
    • The Doctor - Dr. Constantine

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