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This 1932 novel, perhaps one of Agatha Christie's most famous, was another smashing bestseller for the author. It was originally named Murder on the Calais Coach. The novel was based on two real-life occurrences, the 1932 kidnapping of an American child, whose family's lives ended in tragedy after the crime, and the 1928 blizzard that left the Orient Express stranded in the middle of Europe for three days. We again see Hercule Poirot, this time traveling on the snow-bound Orient Express to England, and facing one of his toughest and smartest criminals. Poirot boards the crowded train and immediately smells danger. Then a notorious gangster asks him to protect his life. Poirot refuses, and the next morning the gangster is found brutally stabbed in his locked room. Again Agatha Christie uses the locked-room murder technique and the technique of a very unusual killer. This book shows how Christie has perfected the art of murder, making it as difficult and intriguing as a game of chess. She gives the reader every clue, among some false ones, and keeps him guessing until the very end. Murder on the Orient Express was acclaimed greatly and made into an Oscar-winning movie in 1974, featuring actors like Sean Connery and Ingrid Bergman, and Albert Finney in the role of Poirot.
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