Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie - So You Haven't Read

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So you haven't read Agatha Christie's most famous detective series Murder on the Orient Express?!
Well, this Queen of Mystery has had her work adapted to stage and screen becoming one of the most iconic works of detective fiction of all time! So climb aboard and join Hercule Poirot as he deduces who done it on this railway adventure!

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[Gollvieg]

Murder on the Orient Express is a strange case of a super famous mystery story whose ending is not spoiled like crazy

[danielhale]

You guys it's obvious it was the cat. Who kept labeling all the other characters as guilty? Who could have snuck from room to room virtually unnoticed? A master of disguise in either a conductor outfit or red dress?
Zoey did it, I tells ya!

[jeremy]

A story forever considered the gold standard of murder mystery novels 😊

[penname]

"And then there were none" still gives me chills

[MovieFan]

This has to be the first time an episode of the series covers a book that I actually have read. Because I read this book several years ago to prepare myself for the movie. Though I never did see it, I’m glad I read the book anyway.

[PoggoMcDawggo]

Adam and Eve is not the sponsor I'd expect on this channel. That shocked me at first!

[Drakin]

Hercule Poirot is my favorite detective of all time. While Holmes focussed on the physical forensic clues of a crime and logical deductions, Piorot was about that plus the psychology of the crimes. Why someone was driven to commit murder was just as important as how they did it.
If you ever go looking into adaptations of the detective, I have to say the version played by David Suchet is hands down THE best Poirot I have ever seen.

[srinath]

Words cannot describe how thrilling the plot is. Although I found the first 20-30 pages boring but it did a good job building the foundation for a good story without giving too much away and then the pace increases exponentially. This was one of my favourite books that I have ever read! Thanks for covering this.

[goldengolem]

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“Zoey please enough, they can’t all be guilty.” Yep, definitely. There is absolutely no possible chance all of them are guilty.

[sailor_guy]

Read the book back in 2015 in my school library…and then 2017 film all i can say things like this makes me glad that I am Agatha Christie Fan….Words cannot describe how thrilling this book is want to watch Hercule Poirot series though but all I can say is Thank you Extra Credits for covering my favourite book from her(Agatha Christie)Thank you ❤️

[nikkigriffin]

First time I watched the movie I offhandledly said "this one isn't the sharpest knife in the caeser" about one of the characters. That proved prophetic.

[UnreasonableOpinions]

Murder on the Orient Express one of the best known and comfortably among the best Agatha Christie novel, but it's also not the best one to start with. Much of what it does most cleverly is taking entirely new paths on the genre conventions Christie was such a part in establishing, and particularly her own conventions in these stories, specifically to take her own audience off-guard. It's still a very good murder mystery even if it's your first, but you get a much better ride if you've read enough of her books to know her style well, since you are being directly targeted by the story's cleverest twists.

It's also why the Acorn TV show sensibly put it near the very end when they had established their own style for it to play off, and why it was a mistake for it to be the first of the new franchise of films. Death on the Nile ought to have come before it, perhaps even another great story like the Murder of Roger Akroyd.

[blakespangler]

I’ve gotta say it was this book and “And Then There Were None” that really blew my mind as far as mystery stories go. I was so thrilled by “Murder on the Orient Express” and how excellently it was written. I totally suggest the book to anyone even a little interested in mysteries.

[jasonblalock]

For me, what makes this such a truly great detective story is that Poirot isn't a static character. He has an actual arc, and the ending of the book changes him. That's extremely rare in most detective fiction, where the MC typically has a set character that doesn't change much, if any, because their personality ties into their method of crime-solving. (ie, a Monk who isn't OCD isn't Monk.) That elevates it to literature, imo.

[Rojaniel]

A famous detective novel, right next to "And Then There Were None." Also a Christie novel!

[rodrigolealmartir]

I love Agatha Christie. The best thing about her mysteries imo is that they are "fair play whodunnits": You get all the information you need to discover the culprit and how the crime was commited before the big reveal. Reading her books feels a lot like playing a game.

[TheRennDawg]

In Star Trek mythos, the Cardassians consider Murder on the Orient Express to be the greatest human book.

[tessat]

Agatha Christie based the background of the story on the kidnapping and murder of the toddler son of Charles Lindbergh but also on her own experience riding on the Wagon Lit train from Calais to Istanbul. By riding on the train and meeting new people from all over the world, she was able to let her imagination wander was able to conjure Poirot and her own particular characters into the "locked door" environment of the train journey in winter.

[jesternario]

Holmes, Poirot, Fletcher. All these detectives, and not a single word of the greatest thief of the literary world: Arséne Lupin.