Title: Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Piorot Mystery #9)
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper 1934
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 336
Rating: 5 / 5 stars
Reading Challenges: Mixing it Up -- Mystery; Support Your Local Library; Semi-Charmed -- Always wanted to read
How I Got It: Library loan
Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot must sift through clues--some real and some planted--to find a murderer aboard a crowded train speeding through the snowy European landscape.
This is one of those books that I have always wanted to read, yet somehow never got around to it. I finally snatched it off of the library racks and took it home. A classic mystery that had me guessing until the very end. Loved it! The characters are colorful. The setting is inspired. The clues are given but not completely obvious. Now I understand why this is such a classic. It has everything you want for in a great mystery. I just can't believe it took me this long to get around to it.
Hercule Poirot
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
- The Murder on the Links (1923)
- Poirot Investigates (1924)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
- The Big Four (1927)
- The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
- Peril at End House (1932)
- Lord Edgware Dies (or Thirteen at Dinner) (1933)
- Murder on the Orient Express (or Murder in the Calais Coach) (1934)
- Three Act Tragedy (Murder in Three Acts) (1934)
- Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air) (1935)
- The ABC Murders (1936)
- Cards on the Table (1936)
- Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
- Death on the Nile (1937)
- Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client) (1937)
- Murder in the Mews (Dead Man's Mirror) (1937)
- Appointment with Death (1938)
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas (A Holiday for Murder) (1938)
- Sad Cypress (1940)
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (An Overdose of Death) (1940)
- Evil Under the Sun (1941)
- Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect) (1942)
- The Hollow (Murder After Hours) (1946)
- The Labours of Hercules (1947)
- Taken at the Flood (There is a Tide) (1948)
- Mrs McGinty's Dead (Blood Will Tell) (1952)
- After the Funeral (Funerals are Fatal) (1953)
- Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
- Dead Man's Folly (1956)
- Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
- The Clocks (1963)
- Third Girl (1966)
- Hallowe'en Party (1969)
- Elephants Can Remember (1972)
- Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
- Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)