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Murder on the Orient Express
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1934 novel by Agatha Christie
Key facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Cover artist
- Unknown
- Language
- English
- Series
- Hercule Poirot
- Genre
- Crime novel
- Publisher
- Collins Crime Club
- Publication date
- 1 January 1934 ; 92 years ago ( 1 January 1934 )
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardback and paperback)
- Pages
- 256 (first edition, hardcover)
- Preceded by
- Lord Edgware Dies
- Followed by
- Three Act Tragedy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Followed by
- Unfinished Portrait
- Follows
- The Hound of Death
- Creator
- Agatha Christie
- Image
- Orient Express Buchs.jpg
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- title
- Um Crime no Expresso do Oriente
- publication date
- 1934-01-01
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- Murder on the Orient Express
- place of publication
- United Kingdom
- form of creative work
- novel
- different from
- Murder on the Orient Express
- set in environment
- train
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Encyclopedic overview
Murder on the Orient Express is a mystery novel 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.
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