Murder on the Orient Express (A Hercule Poirot Mystery) [Murder in the Calais Coach]

x, 265 pp. Inspiration for the film of the same name (though it was previously published as Murder in the Calais Coach). 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. One of his fellow passengers must be 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....