Murder on the Orient Express
- Murder in the Calais Coach
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Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach, by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.
The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the case. The opening chapters of the novel take place primarily in Istanbul. The rest of the novel takes place in Yugoslavia, with the train trapped between Vinkovci and Brod, in what is now northeastern Croatia.
The US title of Murder in the Calais Coach was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train, which had been published in the United States as Orient Express.
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Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934, and in the US on 28 February 1934 by Dodd, Mead and Company under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach. The book features Hercule Poirot.
Last modified: 2020-07-30 (revision #16542)
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- Murder on the Orient Express was commissioned by Collins Crime Club
- Murder on the Orient Express was written by Agatha Christie
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