Murder on the Orient Express Archive
Solving the Mystery of Close Quarters: Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
In Murder on the Orient Express we are told that in the dead of winter nobody travels from Istanbul to Calais on the Orient Express. So, what better time to plot the elaborate murder of a supremely evil American businessman known to be traveling on that train.
Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
British mystery writer Agatha Christie follows the news of the ordeal with interest, using the circumstance for her classic novel, Murder on the Orient Express, first published in the U.K. on January 1, 1934.