![]() In classic style, clues and red herrings lead one way and another, but this is one of Christie’s clever murders where it turns out that the only correct solution is that all the suspects took part in the crime. The book is a masterpiece of clever plotting, in which a murder is committed in what appears to be a “locked room” – a train caught in a snowdrift, with a sleeping coach which is cut off from the rest of the train, in which we find our suspects. ![]() The American title – “Murder on the Calais Coach” makes it appear almost banal. Murder on the Orient Express – Warning SpoilersĪgatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express has the claustrophobic but exciting element of a train ride, and the fact that the train takes a traveller to or from “the Orient”, in this case Istanbul, gives an added exotic frisson. ![]()
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