Book Review #Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie #Publisher: HarperCollins UK #Crime & Mystery #2013 (1934)

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW

I finally finished reading Agatha Christie's most famous novel: Murder on the Orient Express. Yes!!! In the entire book - the murder happened in a extravagant train with dining and sleeping carriers leaving to its destination from Istanbul to Calais, with plenty of Interrogation and deductive reasoning and investigation by a London detective Hercule Poirot partnered with Monsieur Bouc unfolds the mystery altogether.

The train runs into a snowdrift at the hour after midnight when an American named Samuel Edward Ratchett- popularly known as Cassetti lay dead in his berth stabbed 12 times that's when the jovial attitude of the passengers in the Simplon Orient Express changes to beating around the bush and collecting evidences.

The train was packed with 13 people of all class and nationalities. The murderer is in the train, none of them gave a chance for Poirot to suspect any of them that one or two of them must have committed the murder. Meanwhile Poirot goes on tirelessly and privately questioning each one of them in the train which was very enjoyable read and crucial for the two solutions that the detective comes up with. I was surprised by the ending and the Poirot's way of solving the crime, I couldn't see how the solution for the crime was coming. A must read classic crime novel you should not miss.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.

Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

“What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?” — New York Times

Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Date: 2013 (1934)
Genre: Crime & Mystery

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