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Christie, Agatha
Murder on the Orient Express
Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex;
Date of Publication: 1948
Stock Code: 12536
First Penguin edition. Softcover octavo, pp. 222, [2]. Original green-and-white card wraps. Contents clean and crisp- a very good copy. Spine lightly toned and rubbed; tidy ownership inscription in ink to upper cover and light foxing to lower. Christie’s ever-popular mystery, featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who is called in to solve the case of a murder committed on the luxury train whilst stranded by heavy snowfall, creating the perfect closed set of suspects. The story was partly inspired by Christie’s own experiences travelling on the Orient Express, and by the blizzard that stopped the train for several days in 1929. The who-dunnit has been adapted for radio,stage and screen many times and remains one of the Queen of Crime’s best-known works. £85.00