Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie · 1934

When the Orient Express is stalled by snow in the Balkans, wealthy American passenger Ratchett is found stabbed to death in his locked compartment, and detective Hercule Poirot, who is aboard the same train, questions the twelve other passengers in the coach to determine who among them killed him.

Books mentioned in Murder on the Orient Express (1)

• Dickens by Charles Dickens: “"A name of good omen," said Poirot. "I read my Dickens. M. Harris, he will not arrive."”

Books that mention Murder on the Orient Express (1)

• The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “Murder on the Orient Express (because its center is too obvious) and Finnegans Wake”