“The murderer is with us - on the train now.”

Hercule Poroit is world most renowned private detective and because of it a busy man. When he is in Istanbul he receives a telegram summoning him to London immediately. His friend Bouc helps him to get there fast in giving him the last seat on the Orient Express. But then heavy snowfall strands the train and on top of it a murder has taken place. It’s up to Poirot to solve it before the train will be able to carry on his journey.

Agatha Christie, a British author of murder mysteries is also known as the Queen of Crime. She started her career around 1920 and wrote for more than 50 years a book a year, resulting in a whopping amount of 70 murder mysteries. Her most known are the novels about the Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot, including Murder on the Orient Express

Reading so many classics this year a book by the Queen of Crime cannot be missed. And so I started my first book ever by this well known murder mystery author. And it didn’t let me down one bit. It was a thrilling book with a classic who done it angle. It had loads of puzzles and suspicions, a lot of facts, but most of all funny and quirky characters. It were these characters with their funny and exiting dialogues that made this book a quick and easy read.
You won’t get very descriptive writing or much atmospheric sceneries from this book, but it was a nice read after all. I think that might just be the strength of a Christie novel: just a fun, puzzling and thrilling read that doesn’t ask much in return.