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Book: "Murder on the Orient Express"

Author: Agatha Christie

Genre: thriller, crime novel

Score (1 to 6): 6

I would like to warn you that what you are about to read may be a spoiler of sorts. Np I can't talk about this book without mentioning some pretty important facts in my opinion. I can talk an awful lot about Agatha Christie's work. She might be my favorite author. I love crime novels, and hers are always exactly what I want to see when I open a book - magic, illusion, adventure, interest. I always have assumptions about what will happen, who is guilty, and I'm always surprised because my assumptions turn out wrong. I get excited with each new page. Christie's books give me that feeling, and Murder on the Orient Express ranks among my favorites in my home library.

This book is a combination of classic sophistication and a touch of action. Oh mon Dieu, it's wonderful and I adore it. One of the most well known and read mysteries of all time. And if you haven't read it yet, hurry up and do so, because I think you're missing a lot. Agatha Christie is hailed as the Queen of Crime, and Murder on the Orient Express may just be her jewel in the crown.

Everything in the story is polished down to the smallest detail. This comes from Agatha Christie's love of the Orinette Express. She longed to board it, and she did in 1928. In writing the story, she painstakingly noted the details of the carriages; clues such as the position of the door handles would prove vital to Poirot's investigation. Some of her most ardent fans actually follow in Christie's footsteps by accurately verifying her descriptions from the novel. The book was written in 1934 , and the first film based on the novel was released in 1974. It has been mentioned that the author disliked screen adaptations of her novels, but liked this one for Murder on the Orient Express. This book is very well written and has many twists and turns in the plot so you are constantly looking forward to what comes next. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery. Agatha Christie will always be a literary phenomenon who created one of the most enduring detectives of all time, the pedantic, vain Belgian Hercule Poirot, known for his huge mustache and quick mind. Murder on the Orient Express is a very different work from her others though. At its heart is not only a search for truth and justice, it also deals with a miscarriage of justice, and its twist at the end is as ingenious as it is convincing. REVENGE is a powerful word. It's like a shadow that engulfs you in its own darkness. Regret, anger, anxiety make every moment of your life miserable. How will you live when you are already dead inside. All you want is JUSTICE, but is there a way to get it. "The killer is with us - now on the train. . " Shortly after midnight the famous Orient Express is stopped by a snowdrift. In the morning, millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shadow of a doubt, one of his train companions is the killer. Isolated from the storm, Detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies before the killer decides to strike again. Poirot's sharp and quick mind quickly solves the case and for once the detective is faced with an emotional dilemma. It's obvious whose side the little Belgian is on, so his sympathy for murder is what sets this book apart - for once Poirot sides with people he usually brings to justice to redress the balance and flatter his own vanity. It's a brilliant book, with a complex yet simple plot, but the emotional side shown makes Murder on the Orient Express stand out from all of Agatha Christie's other crime novels.

If we are to look at Agatha Christie's work as a whole, it is a different genre in itself. Crime novels, but never full of gore, but rather entertainingly written. It shows us that we have to look at crime rationally, sift through the evidence logically and then 'think it through'. The characters in the books are presented realistically, down to their ugliest or funniest scars. You can never predict their ending, and even if you do there is still plenty to surprise you. As I mentioned before, I can never guess, and I would say she has an eye for detail, but somehow Agatha Christie always manages to be a few moves ahead of me, and that terribly impresses me as I read. There's always a note that tells me there's something to keep turning the pages for and the magic continues.

"You'll tell your lies and think no one will know, but there are two people who will know the truth, your God and Hercule Poirot.".