While traveling back to England after closing yet another case, Agatha Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot once again finds himself in the middle of a mystery. One night, as he’s sleeping in his cabin on the Orient Express, he awakes to a scream in the next cabin. Figuring it’s just a dream, he goes back to sleep.
The next morning, however, Poirot discovers that he may not have been dreaming after all. The man who’d been assigned to the cabin next to him had been murdered during the night. And, since the train is trapped in a snow bank and has been unable to move for quite some time, the murderer is obviously still on-board.
The victim, Poirot soon discovers, had been responsible for a highly-publicized kidnapping case in America — one that had led to the deaths of several important and well-loved people. So it’s clear that the man had enemies. But who on the train was capable of murder?
Poirot sets out to question the other passengers — a Russian princess, a gruff Italian man, the victim’s staff, a British nanny, and others — and finds that almost everyone has a rock-solid alibi, which means that not all of them are telling the truth.
Christie once again shows her talent for creating scenarios that her readers will never suspect — and then pointing them down a completely different path. Murder on the Orient Express is a quick, easy read (in fact, I read half of it while sitting by the pool for a while one afternoon). And, though I enjoyed Ten Little Indians a bit more, it’s an excellent story — well worth a few hours of your time.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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