Murder on the Orient Express
To M.E.L.M. Arpachiya, 1933
UK
Collins, London, Jan. 1934
The Grand Magazine, Mar.-May 1934
US
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1934 as "Murder in the Calais Coach"
The Saturday Evening Post, Sep. 30-Nov. 4 1933 as 'Murder in the Calais Coach'

Plot

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.

Contents

PART I - THE FACTS
1. An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express • 2. The Tokatlian Hotel • 3. Poirot Refuses a Case • 4. A Cry in the Night • 5. The Crime • 6. A Woman • 7. The Body • 8. The Armstrong Kidnapping Case
PART II - THE EVIDENCE
1. The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor • 2. The Evidence of the Secretary • 3. The Evidence of the Valet • 4. The Evidence of the American Lady • 5. The Evidence of the Swedish Lady • 6. The Evidence of the Russian Princess • 7. The Evidence of the Count and Countess Andrenyi • 8. The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot • 9. The Evidence of Mr. Hardman • 10. The Evidence of the Italian • 11. The Evidence of Miss Dobenham • 12. The Evidence of the German Lady's-Maid • 13. Summary of the Passengers' Evidence • 14. The Evidence of the Weapon • 15. The Evidence of the Passengers' Luggage
PART III - HERCULE POIROT SITS BACK AND THINKS
1. Which of Them? • 2. Ten Questions • 3. Certain Suggestive Points • 4. The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport • 5. The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff • 6. A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot • 7. The Identity of Mary Debenham • 8. Further Surprising Revelations • 9. Poirot Propounds Two Solutions

Characters

Hercule Poirot • Bouc • Miss Mary Hermione Debenham • Colonel Arbuthnot • Samuel Edward Ratchett • Hector Willard MacQueen • Edward Henry Masterman • Mrs. Caroline Martha Hubbard • Dr Constantine • Natalia Dragomiroff • Fraulein Schmidt • Count Rudolph Andrenyi • Countess Elena Maria Andrenyi • Cyrus Bethman Hardman • Miss Greta Ohlsson • Antonio Foscarelli • Pierre Michel

Linda Arden • Daisy Armstrong • Selby Armstrong • Sonia Armstrong • Tommy Armstrong • Dubosc • Helena Goldenberg • Jerry • Johnson • Pietro • Hildegarde Schmidt • Stengelberg • Susanne • Henry Tomlinson • Tommy • W. K. Van der Halt • Demetrius Zagone • Zia

Films & TV

Hercule Poirot klärt den Mord im Orient-Express auf, W.Germany, 1955
TV drama list
Murder on the Orient Express, UK, 1974
Film list
Murder on the Orient Express, US, 2001
TV drama list
Murder on the Orient Express, ITV/UK, 2010
Agatha Christie's POIROT XII
ORIENT-kyuko satsujin-jiken, CX/JP, 2015
TV drama list
Murder on the Orient Express, US, 2017
Film list

UK/US covers

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Dodd, Mead and Company

Pocket Books

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other publishers

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Magazine

Dunverys er Traen Tappee yn Niar


Murdo en la Orienta Ekspreso


Western Europe covers

Le crime de l'Orient-Express

French index

Le Masque (#169) 1934

Club des Masques (#337) 1978

Le Livre de Poche (#1607) 1966

Le Livre de Poche jeunesse (#58) 1981

other publishers

Murder on the Orient Express


Muntr en Orient-Express


Moord in de Oriënt-Expres // De ingesneeuwde slaapwagen

Dutch index


Mord im Orientexpress / Der rote Kimono

German index

Mord im Orientexpress


Der rote Kimono


Murder on the Orient Express

Northern Europe covers

Mordet på Orientexpressen

Swedish index


Mordet i Orient Ekspressen // Mord i Orient Ekspressen

Danish index


Mord på Orientekspressen

Norwegian index


Idän pikajunan arvoitus

Finnish index


Morðið í Austurlandahraðlestinni / Austurlandahraðlestin

Icelandic index


Mõrv Idaekspressis // Kes tappis ameeriklase?

Estonian index


Slepkavība Austrumu ekspresī / Austrumu ekspresis

Lettish index


Žmogžudystė Rytų eksprese / Žmogžudystė Kale traukinyje

Lithuanian index


Southern Europe covers

Assassinio sull'Orient-Express // Orient Express

Italian index


Asesinato en el Orient Express

Spanish index


Assassinat a l'Orient Express


Asasinato no Orient Express


Orient-Expresseko Hilketa


Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente / O Assassinato no Expresso Oriente / Assassinato no Expresso Oriente / Um Crime no Expresso do Oriente

Portuguese index

Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente


Assassinato no Expresso Oriente


Um Crime no Expresso do Oriente


Έγκλημα στο Όριεντ εξπρές / Δολοφονία στο Orient Express / Έγκλημα στο εξπρές Οριάν / Φόνος στο Εξπρές του Καλαί

Greek index

Έγκλημα στο Όριεντ εξπρές


Δολοφονία στο Orient Express


Έγκλημα στο εξπρές Οριάν


Φόνος στο Εξπρές του Καλαί


Φόνος στο Εξπρές Οριάν


Ubistvo u Orijent Ekspresu // Убиство у Оријент експресу

former Yugoslavia index


Ubistvo u Orijent ekspresu

former Yugoslavia index


Ubojstvo u Orijent-ekspresu / Ubojstvo u Orijent Expressu

former Yugoslavia index


Umor v Orient Ekspresu // Umor na Orient Ekspresu

former Yugoslavia index


Qtil fuq l-'Orient Express'


Ubistvo vo Orient-ekspres / Убиство во Ориент Експрес

former Yugoslavia index


Vrasje në Orient Ekspres

Albanian index


Eastern Europe covers

Vražda v Orient Expresse

Slovak index


Vražda v Orient-expresu

Czech index


Gyilkosság az Orient Expresszen // A behavazott Expressz

Hungarian index


Убийство в Ориент Експрес

Bulgarian index


Morderstwo w Orient Expressie

Polish index


Crima din Orient Express

Romanian index


Вбивство у «Східному експресі»

Ukrainian index


Убийство в Восточном экспрессе // Восточный экспресс

Russian index


Murder on the Orient Express


Middle East & Asian covers

მკვლელობა აღმოსავლეთის ექსპრესში / მკვლელობა აღმოსავლეთ ექსპრესზე

Georgian index


Doğu Ekspresinde Cinayet // Orient Ekspres Cinayeti / Ölüm Ekspresi / Simplon Ekspresindeki Cinayet / Şark Ekspresi'nde Cinayet

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Şark Ekspresi'nde Cinayet


Şərq Ekspresində Qətl

Azerbaijan index


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Arabic index

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جريمة في قطار الشرق


قتل در قطار سریع‌السیر شرق / قتل در قطار اورینت

Persian index

قتل در قطار سریع‌السیر شرق


قتل در قطار اورینت


قتل در قطار


اورینٹ ایکسپریس

South Asia index


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South Asia index


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South Asia index


ඔරියන්ට් ශීඝ්‍රගාමී දුම්රියේ මිනීමැරුම

South Asia index


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Thai index

ฆาตกรรมบนรถด่วนโอเรียนท์เอกซ์เพรส


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แผนสังหารบนรถด่วน


รถด่วนอันตราย


ด่วนมรณะ


Pembunuhan di Orient Express // Pembunuhan di Atas Orient Express

Indonesian index


Pembunuhan di Ekspres Orient


Án Mạng Trên Chuyến Tàu Tốc Hành Phương Đông // Chuyến tàu định mệnh / Vụ án mạng trên con tàu tốc hành Phương Đông

Vietnamese index

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Chinese index

復仇記


東方快車兇殺案


東方快車謀殺案


东方快车谋杀案


东方快车上的谋杀案


english


オリエント急行の殺人 / オリエント急行殺人事件

Japanese index

十二の刺傷


オリエント急行の殺人

早川書房

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play

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