3.5… gonna start reading more agatha christie ( )

I was drawn to this book by the cover. Murder mystery and a train? Two of my favorite things! I'm so thankful I found this book. It captured me from the first page and kept me on the edge of my seat, something that is hard to do with my wandering mind. Maybe it was just me, but it was difficult to suss out who was lying or being truthful, but it was fun to draw my own conclusions and see if I was right about who done it! The ending through me for a loop and I lost my mind!

I recommend this book 100%! You won't regret reading it. ( )

Queen of the Genre

This novel is only the second Agatha Christie mystery I have read. It is hardly a wonder that her books sell so well because they are relatively short and intricately laid out. Certainly a page turner. Fourteen people plus a train conductor occupy a sleeper car on the Orient Express traveling from Istanbul to Paris that gets stuck in the snow in Yugoslavia. One of them is murdered and one of them happens to be famed detective Hercule Poirot. There are also the director of the train line and a physician lodged in a different car, who are foils for Poirot's ruminations. Those are the ingredients of this perfect "locked room" murder mystery. My only criticism is the long soliloquies that tell rather than show. I found my attention wandering during them. ( )

Good, classic mystery from way back when. ( )

A fun 'closed room' mystery, of a sort. This is a classic for a good reason. Relatively short and to the point, yet still fascinating. ( )