title: Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot)
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer -- in case he or she decides to strike again.
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  MURDER ON THE 
  ORIENT EXPRESS 
   
  Agatha Christie is the world’s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold 
  over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign 
  languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, 
  outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. 
  Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 79 
  novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The 
  Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she 
  created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and 
  relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have 
  been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. 
  Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary 
  Westmacott. As well, she wrote four nonfiction books including an autobiography 
  and an entertaining