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Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. 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.

One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation.

Isolated and with a killer in their midst, Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.

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Hercule Poirot, the protagonist of the story, is a celebrated Belgian detective who stumbles on a murder investigation when a man in his train car, Mr. Ratchett, is murdered.  He uses his extraordinary talent for logic and deduction to solve the murder, conducting extended interviews focused on each suspect’s emotional state.

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There were thirteen people of all classes, nationalities and ages.

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There were thirteen people of all classes, nationalities and ages.

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"For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never perhaps to see each other again.

- And yet, - said Poirot, - suppose an accident. Perhaps, all these here are linked together – by death.”

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Ratchett, the story's murder victim, is actually an American gangster by the name of Cassetti. At the start of the novel, Ratchett asks Poirot for protection against his enemies.

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- What has occurred? - he asked.

- And now a passenger lies dead in his berth – stabbed.

- Which passenger?

- An American. A man called, called– he consulted some notes in front of him. - Ratchett.

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To solve a case i has only to lie back in his chair and think...

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To solve a case i has only to lie back in his chair and think...

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Mrs. Hubbard is an obnoxious, neurotic American woman who talks incessantly about her daughter, whom she has supposedly just visited in Turkey. Her testimony is pivotal during Poirot's investigation: she claims to have seen a man, presumably Pratchett's killer, hiding in her compartment on the night of the murder. She also claims to have found a bloody dagger hidden in her luggage.

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Hardman originally behaves like a stereotypical American, with a brash, crude, and overly familiar personality. While this personality never entirely disappears, he later reveals that he is actually an undercover detective with a New York City firm. He tells Poirot that Ratchet had hired him in an attempt to stay safe from various enemies.

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Dragomiroff is an elderly Russian aristocrat who is rumored to have fled her native country after the communist revolution. She is imposing, mysterious, and remarkably ugly, but with a manner that commands respect from everyone including Poirot.

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Debenham, like Arbuthnot, is stereotypically British. She strains to act composed and emotionally restrained, but her composure begins to crack early in the novel: Poirot witnesses her obvious distress, not only in her conversations with Arbuthnot, but in her reaction to the train's inevitable delay. She later runs from the compartment in tears during one of Poirot's interrogations. Poirot eventually realizes that she was employed as a governess in the Armstrong household.

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MacQueen is Pratchett's friendly young American secretary. He frequently complains to Poirot about how his employer spoke no languages other than English, which turns out to be one of many attempts at misleading and misdirecting the detective.

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The Countess is a very quiet, beautiful, and young woman with a vaguely foreign air. Her husband is a Hungarian diplomat, but she claims, unlike him, never to have visited the U.S. Her alibi crumbles when Poirot notices strange marks on her luggage tags and passport: she has, he realizes, tried to make it seem as if her name is Elena rather than Helena.

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Pierre Michel is the conductor of the train on which the novel takes place. Bouc vouches for his trustworthiness, and for most of the novel he is assumed to have been uninvolved in the murder. He appears to be dutiful, organized, and helpful.

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When the girl was three years old, she was kidnapped with a huge ransom demand. When the parents paid it, it turned out that the girl was already dead. Being pregnant, Mrs. Armstrong gave birth to a stillborn child from shock and died in childbirth. The colonel shot himself out of grief. Daisy's French nanny was accused of kidnapping. The girl denied everything and committed suicide out of desperation. Then it turned out that she was innocent. The abductor and murderer of the girl, a certain Cassetti, escaped retribution and lived under the name of Ratchett.

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The famous detective finds out that, wanting to avenge the death of a little girl, all the passengers of the train participated in the murder.

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I started reading the book expecting that it would remain unknown to me until the end who the killer was. But unfortunately, I accidentally found out the secret at the beginning. But that didn't make the book seem boring. I liked the language the author used to describe the location and the lines of the characters were easy to read.
I did not regret the hours I spent with this book. In my opinion, this masterpiece is a must read for everyone, even if you don't particularly have a soul for detectives. "Murder on the Orient Express" deserves its rightful place on my shelf of favorite books.