When was the book Murder on the Orient Express released?
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
"Murder on the Orient Express" is set in the year 1934. The game is initially begins in Istanbul, while the remaining majority occurs within the carriages of the Orient Express, when it is blocked by an avalanche in Yugoslavia. However, the player has some opportunities to venture outside the train into the snowy exterior environment.
Detective fiction
Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie. She produced long series of books featuring detective characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others. Her use of basing her stories on complex puzzles, “combined with her stereotyped characters and picturesque middle-class settings”, is credited for her success. Christie's works include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and "And Then There Were None" (1939).
Murder on the Orient Express
The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall, with many passengers. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the murder.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
The Adventure Company and Chorion, the owners of the rights to Christie's works, chose Agatha Christie's novel "Murder on the Orient Express", widely considered the author's "magnum opus", as the basis for the next game in the "Agatha Christie series". AWE Productions had little influence in the choice, other than being asked for an opinion. Sheldon created a concept document for the new game and sent it to Chorion, who sent it back with some suggestions. Sheldon agreed to some of these, but refused others. Chorion was generally more comfortable with the development team for their second outing. They did not have to scrutinize every aspect of the game as with "And Then There Were None", and generally had fewer complaints with "Murder on the Orient Express", as opposed to its predecessor.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
The official site for "Murder on the Orient Express" was unveiled in September 2006, and contains screenshots, character biographies and photos, environment artwork, trailers, demos, music, wallpaper and contests. "Murder on the Orient Express" was released on November 14, 2006 in North America. The Adventure Company held a launch party for the gaming press two days after the game was shipped. Among the guests were the development team of "Murder on the Orient Express", and actors portraying the game's various characters. The demo for "Murder on the Orient Express" was released on December 20, 2006, and contained a small portion of the game which has the player exploring the train.
Matt Rees
The second book in the series, "A Grave in Gaza", appeared in 2008 (under the title "The Saladin Murders" in the UK). Omar Yussef travels to Gaza, where he struggles against corrupt security chiefs who are smuggling weapons. The Bookseller called it "a cracking, atmospheric read." The third book in the series, "The Samaritan's Secret", was published in 2009. Set in Nablus, it takes place against the backdrop of the city's ancient casbah and the small community of Samaritans still living on a hilltop overlooking the West Bank town. "The New Republic" called it "a wonderful detective thriller." Rees's fourth novel, "The Fourth Assassin", appeared in 2010 and showed Omar Yussef to be "one of the most beguiling of current sleuths," according to "The Sunday Times". Omar goes to New York for a UN conference and uncovers an assassination plot.
E. T. C. Werner
Pamela was murdered in January 1937, a crime that has never been solved. In 2011, the British author Paul French, an expatriate living in China, published a study of the murder, "Midnight in Peking", which explores the career and character of Werner and offers a solution to the mystery. A TV adaptation of the book is currently being produced by Kudos with a script by Richard Warlow (creator, writer and show runner of the BBC Television and Amazon Prime series Ripper Street. Jonathan Spence, in a review of the book, speculates that part of the reason that the crime was not solved was that Werner made "a self-insulating cult of his loneliness. It may indeed have been true that he disliked most people he met, and that he made no attempt to conceal it." He adds that Werner was "not the kind of man who made people want to help when he was in trouble. He infuriated the British, failed to get in close touch with the Chinese officers assigned to the case, gave his own contradictory press conferences on the steps of the regional substation, and rooted around the probable crime scenes without permission."
Romance on the Orient Express
Romance on the Orient Express is a 1985 romantic drama television film directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and starring Cheryl Ladd and Stuart Wilson.
Hercule Poirot
In 2017, Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in a 2017 film adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express". Branagh has been confirmed to return for a new film version of "Death on the Nile", set for a 2020 release.David Suchet starred as Poirot in the ITV series "Agatha Christie's Poirot" from 1989 until June 2013, when he announced that he was bidding farewell to the role. "No one could've guessed then that the series would span a quarter-century or that the classically trained Suchet would complete the entire catalogue of whodunits featuring the eccentric Belgian investigator, including 33 novels and dozens of short stories." His final appearance was in an adaptation of "Curtain: Poirot's Last Case", aired on 13 November 2013. During the time that it was filmed, Suchet expressed his sadness at his final farewell to the Poirot character whom he had loved:
Daisy Ridley
In 2017, Ridley portrayed Mary Debenham in "Murder on the Orient Express", an adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel of the same name. Directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, production began in London in November 2016. She also reprised her role as Rey, opposite Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, in "", which was released in December 2017.
Minder on the Orient Express
Minder on the Orient Express is a comedy/thriller television film made in 1985 as a spin-off from the successful television series "Minder". It was first broadcast on Christmas Day 1985, as the highlight of that year's ITV Christmas schedule.
Murder on the Home Front
The series aired as a single presentation on PBS in the United States on 16 February 2014. Executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle said of the production; “With Geoffrey Sax directing Davy Kane’s witty and fast paced script, we hope to depict London in the Blitz as a city living life on the edge.” The series was released on DVD via Universal Pictures on 29 July 2013.
Lindsay Ashford
Her latest book, published in 2016, "The Woman on the Orient Express," is a novel with a fictional version Agatha Christie as its heroine.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
Dr. Constantine's examination reveals Ratchett was stabbed 12 times. Some wounds were slight, but at least three of them could have resulted in death. The stopped watch in the victim's pocket, as well as Poirot's reconstructed timeline of passenger activities the night before, indicate that Ratchett was murdered at about 1:15 a.m. The train had stopped, surrounded by fresh snow, before then. There are no tracks in the snow and the doors to the other cars were locked, so the murderer is almost certainly still among the Calais passengers. Also discovered at the scene of the crime are a pipe-cleaner, a woman's handkerchief with the initial "H", and a fragment of a burned letter. Upon examining the letter, Poirot discovers that Ratchett was actually Cassetti, a Mafia gangster who five years before carried out the kidnapping and killing of Daisy Armstrong, the infant daughter of wealthy British Army Colonel Hamish Armstrong who had settled in Long Island, New York with his American wife Sonia. Overcome with grief, the pregnant Mrs. Armstrong went into labour early and died while giving birth to a stillborn baby. A French maidservant named Paulette, suspected of complicity in the kidnapping, committed suicide, only to be found innocent later. Colonel Armstrong, consumed by these tragedies, later killed himself as well. Cassetti fled the country with the ransom, leaving his partner to be executed, and was only revealed to be the leader of the kidnapping plot on the eve of the execution.
Rudy Franchi
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All Quiet on the Orient Express
All Quiet on the Orient Express is the second novel by Booker shortlisted author Magnus Mills, published in 1999. As with his first novel it is a tragi-comedy with an unnamed narrator dealing with apparently simple but increasingly sinister situations.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer had a supporting role in Kenneth Branagh's "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017), the fourth adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel of the same name. The mystery–drama ensemble film follows world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot, who seeks to solve a murder on the famous European train in the 1930s. Pfeiffer played an aging socialite with Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, and Judi Dench. Pfeiffer sang the song "Never Forget", which plays over the film's closing credits and appears on the film's official soundtrack. The film grossed US$351.7 million worldwide and received decent reviews from critics, with praise for the performances, but criticism for not adding anything new to previous adaptations. Although most critics agreed that the ensemble cast was underused, Pfeiffer's performance earned positive reviews, with Richard Roeper of the "Chicago Sun-Times" opining that the actress delivers the film's best performance. "The New Yorker"'s Anthony Lane found Pfeiffer to be the only actor who appears to be enjoying their material. David Edelstein of "Vulture" described the actress as "a hoot and a half ... stealing every scene". Mick LaSalle, writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle", identified Pfeiffer as the film's "most interesting bit of casting", crediting her performance with reminding audiences that she is one of today's best film actresses and "help[ing] Branagh make the case for his remake over the original".
David Landau (screenwriter)
With the publication of his "The Mystery Express" (1982), Landau is most often credited as the "inventor" of the interactive murder mystery. The play "Murder at Café Noir" is his most popular, having been performed over one hundred times across the United States.
Cross Fire (novel)
Cross Fire is the 17th book of James Patterson's Alex Cross series. In the novel, Kyle Craig has come back for one final scare to finally kill Alex Cross, but Alex has a special day ahead of him, one that concerns Bree and his relationship. The novel was released in hardcover, paperback, and audio book on November 15, 2010. It was preceded by "I, Alex Cross" and was followed by "Kill Alex Cross". The book sees Alex getting married to Bree after proposing to her in the previous book; the book also sees the final appearance of Kyle Craig, who dies by shooting an oxygen tank, killing him and two cops before he can be sent to prison again by Alex.
Murder on the Orient Express
The UK serialisation appeared after book publication, appearing in three instalments in the "Grand Magazine", in March, April, and May 1934 (Issues 349 to 351). This version was abridged from the book version (losing some 25% of the text), was without chapter divisions, and named the Russian princess as Dragiloff instead of Dragomiroff. Advertisements in the back pages of the UK first editions of "The Listerdale Mystery", "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", and "Parker Pyne Investigates" claimed that "Murder on the Orient Express" had proven to be Christie's best-selling book to date and the best-selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series.
J. Bowyer Bell
With the aid of a grant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell returned to the Middle East in 2000 to conduct research for his next book, on Egyptian Islamic terrorism. As with "The Secret Army" first being published shortly after the start of the Troubles, Bell's timing was again good with "Murders on the Nile: The World Trade Center and Global Terrorism" being published in 2002, shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States by Al-Qaeda.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
In 1934, famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a theft at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The obsessive-compulsive sleuth—who seeks balance in life, and considers his case-solving ability to see a lie amid truth to be a curse—wants to rest in Istanbul, but must return to London for another case. His friend Bouc, nephew of the director of the Simplon-route Orient Express service, arranges a bunk for him aboard the train.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
The film was commercially and critically well-received, as well as receiving six nominations at the 47th Academy Awards: Best Actor (Finney), Best Supporting Actress (Bergman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design. Of these nominations, Bergman was the only winner.
Death on the Nile (1978 film)
"The Times"' film critic David Robinson had mixed feelings about the film. Although it was entertaining, and followed the formula of the "Murder on the Orient Express" film four years earlier, he found it a bit too long and not quite as good. He concluded that screenwriter Anthony Shaffer and director John Guillermin were not quite as suitable to handle Agatha Christie's rich material as Paul Dehn and Sidney Lumet had been when they worked on "Murder on the Orient Express".
Ken Ludwig
He has adapted the Agatha Christie novel "Murder on the Orient Express" to a stage play, which premiered at the McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, New Jersey, on March 14, 2017. Directed by Emily Mann, the cast featured Allan Corduner as Detective Hercule Poirot, Veanne Cox as Princess Dragomiroff, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh as Michel, Julie Halston as Mrs. Hubbard, Susannah Hoffman as Mary Debenham, Alexandra Silber as Countess Andrenyi, Juha Sorola as MacQueen, Samantha Steinmetz as Greta Ohlsson, Max von Essen as Ratchett/Col. Arburthnot, and Evan Zes as Bouc.
Max Allan Collins
This series features a professional thief, similar to and apparently inspired by Richard Stark's "Parker" character, who operates in the Midwest.The Mallory series is about a mystery writer in Iowa who solves crimes.Collins's longest running series and arguably his best known work is his Nathan Heller series. Heller is a Chicago private investigator who gets involved in famous crimes and meets famous people of the 1930s and 1940s, including Orson Welles, Frank Nitti, and Sally Rand. The first novel in this historical fiction series, "True Detective", won the 1984 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Hardcover from the Private Eye Writers of America. Collins won his second Shamus in 1992 for the Heller novel "Stolen Away", an account of the Lindbergh kidnapping. His 1999 novel "Flying Blind" sees Heller investigate the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, along the way becoming romantically involved with her. With the release of "Chicago Confidential", Collins moved the action into the 1950s. "Target Lancer", about an alleged attempt to assassinate John F. Kennedy in Chicago just weeks before the actual assassination in Dallas, was published in November 2012.
Richard B Goodwin
Richard Goodwin learnt his trade as a location and production manager, and after working as associate producer on Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet",(1968), he produced "Tales of Beatrix Potter", featuring the Royal Ballet. John Brabourne's father in law, Lord Mountbatten, secured the film rights to a number of Agatha Christie novels, from the Dame herself. By 1974, Goodwin and Brabourne had produced the first of the "all star" adaptations of Christie’s novels, " Murder on the Orient Express". The film was a success, grossing $35 million from a budget of $1.9 million. Directed by Sidney Lumet, the cast included: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, and Ingrid Bergman. "Death on the Nile" followed in 1978, with another all-star cast, headed by Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. The later adaptions, "The Mirror Crack'd", in 1980, and "Evil Under the Sun", in 1982, received mixed reviews, and disappointed at the box office.
In 1981, Goodwin and John Brabourne finally secured the rights to produce E.M.Forster's A Passage to India. They managed to persuade David Lean to return to directing, after a 14-year lull. "A Passage to India" opened to critical acclaim in 1984, and received 11 Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, for which Goodwin and Brabourne were nominated as producers.They lost to "Amadeus", but their feature film won two oscars: Best Supporting Actress for Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and best music for Maurice Jarre.
Murder on the Orient Express
After taking the Taurus Express from Aleppo in Syria to Istanbul, private detective Hercule Poirot arrives at the Tokatlian Hotel. There he receives a telegram prompting him to return to London. He instructs the concierge to book a first-class compartment on the Simplon-route Orient Express service, leaving that night. Although the train is fully booked, Poirot obtains a second-class berth, but only with the intervention of a friend and fellow Belgian who is also boarding the train, Monsieur Bouc, a director of the railway, Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Aboard the train, a malevolent, elderly American, Samuel Ratchett, attempts to hire Poirot because he believes his life is threatened, but Poirot refuses out of distaste for the man.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
… had Dame Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" been made into a movie 40 years ago (when it was published here as "Murder on the Calais Coach"), it would have been photographed in black-and-white on a back lot in Burbank or Culver City, with one or two stars and a dozen character actors and studio contract players. Its running time would have been around 67 minutes and it could have been a very respectable B-picture. "Murder on the Orient Express" wasn't made into a movie 40 years ago, and after you see the Sidney Lumet production that opened yesterday at the Coronet, you may be both surprised and glad it wasn't. An earlier adaptation could have interfered with plans to produce this terrifically entertaining super-valentine to a kind of whodunit that may well be one of the last fixed points in our inflationary universe."
Christie later said that this and "Witness for the Prosecution" were the only adaptations of her books that she liked.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney), who is asked to investigate the murder of an American business tycoon aboard the Orient Express train. The suspects are portrayed by a notably all-star cast, including Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins and Wendy Hiller. The screenplay is by Paul Dehn as well as an uncredited Anthony Shaffer.
Enemy Coast Ahead
It was first published in book form in 1946, to much critical acclaim and a fully uncensored account released in 2003. The book was serialised in the Sunday Express during the winter of 1944-45, following his death in September 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands.
Appointment with Death (film)
Gielgud and Bacall had previously co-starred in another big-screen Poirot adaptation, 1974's "Murder on the Orient Express".
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
"Murder on the Orient Express" is the first game in the "Agatha Christie series" to feature Hercule Poirot, Christie's most popular and famous detective. David Suchet, whose portrayal of Poirot achieved fame through the popular television series "Agatha Christie's Poirot", was hired to provide Poirot's voice. His performance was generally met with praise. Some have criticized the game for not allowing the player to actually control Poirot; the developers explained this choice by saying that adventure gamers who make mistakes throughout the game do not reflect the genius of Poirot, but are better represented by amateur sleuth Antoinette Marceau.
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John Gielgud in "Murder on the Orient Express"
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
In an interview with "Associated Press" in December 2017, Branagh discussed developing an adaptation of "Death on the Nile" with the possibility of even more films to follow, potentially creating a new "cinematic universe" of Poirot films:
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
"Murder on the Orient Express" was announced in May 2006, as the second installment in The Adventure Company's "Agatha Christie series". As with the game's predecessor, "And Then There Were None", "Murder on the Orient Express" was developed by AWE Productions, in collaboration with producer The Adventure Company. The production team remained largely the same, with Lee Sheldon reprising his role as Lead Designer, and Scott Nixon from AWE Productions reprising his position as Managing Director.
Murder on the Orient Express
In December 2014, the novel was included in "Entertainment Weekly"'s list of the Nine Great Christie Novels.
In Cold Blood
When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested six weeks after the murders and later executed by the state of Kansas. Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book. When finally published, "In Cold Blood" was an instant success, and today is the second-biggest-selling true crime book in publishing history, behind Vincent Bugliosi's 1974 book "Helter Skelter" about the Charles Manson murders.
The Murder at the Vicarage
The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express is a 2000 thriller film about a group of international terrorists who, a few days before the start of the new millennium, lure a group of very rich celebrities and businesspeople on board the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul in order to extort large sums of money from them. The screenplay for the movie was written by Peter Welbeck (aka Harry Alan Towers) and Peter Jobin. The film, which was directed by Mark Roper, starred Richard Grieco, Joanna Bukovska, Romina Mondello, Christoph Waltz, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Götz Otto.
Jean-François Miniac
After the publisher went bankrupt in 2000, EP publishers ( La Martinière group, Paris) published the comic books, the first one in October 2002 and the second one in February 2003. In four years, 20 000 copies of each have been sold in France ( At the end of 2006, 148 000 copies for all the books ).
In July 2007, "Death on the Nile" and "Murder on the Orient Express" were released by Harper Collins UK as a comic strip, adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Solidor. These books will be published by Harper Collins in Australia the first November of this year.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
Agatha Christie had been quite displeased with some film adaptations of her works made in the 1960s, and accordingly was unwilling to sell any more film rights. When Nat Cohen, chairman of EMI Films, and producer John Brabourne attempted to get her approval for this film, they felt it necessary to have Lord Mountbatten of Burma (of the British Royal Family and also Brabourne's father-in-law) help them broach the subject. In the end, according to Christie's husband Max Mallowan, "Agatha herself has always been allergic to the adaptation of her books by the cinema, but was persuaded to give a rather grudging appreciation to this one."
Murder on Mars
Murder on Mars is a juvenile science fiction novel, the sixteenth in Hugh Walters' "Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A." series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1975. It was the second in the series to switch to detective work rather than space exploration.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
The game opens on June 29, 1924 at an unidentified farmhouse in New Paltz, New York. NYPD officers arrive at the farmhouse and surround it before unloading. After a brief gun battle, two men walk out of the house and surrender.
Jacqueline Bisset
Bisset was one of many stars in the British whodunnit "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), an enormous success. In Britain she starred in the remake of "The Spiral Staircase" (1975).
A Murder Is Announced
A Murder Is Announced is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month. The UK edition sold for eight shillings and sixpence (8/6) and the US edition at $2.50.
Wendy Hiller
She received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined, but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite Paul Scofield as Thomas More, in "A Man for All Seasons" (1966). Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress. Other notable roles included a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany with her dying husband in "Voyage of the Damned" (1976), the formidable London Hospital matron in "The Elephant Man" (1980) and Maggie Smith's emotionally cold and demanding aunt in "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" (1987).
Traces series
Six books of the series were published between 2005 and 2007 by Kingfisher Books in the UK and by Turtleback Books in the US. All six books, plus a seventh, "Murder Club" (2013), have since been published by the author on Amazon Kindle.
Dial M for Murdoch
Details of the title and publication date were kept under wraps, with those involved in its production required to sign confidentiality agreements, a move adopted amid fears News International would try to prevent the launch. Allen Lane announced the book's release on 16 April, three days before the publication date. The timeframe between receipt of the final manuscript and the book's publication is believed to be the shortest in Penguin's history. On the day details of the book were revealed, Watson indicated on his blog his belief that the book would be controversial: "Very excited to say we've finally finished the book. It's out this Thursday. I have a hunch it will be one of the most attacked books this year." The title is a play on the 1954 film "Dial M for Murder".
Murder on the Orient Express
A Japanese adaptation was broadcast over two nights in January 2015 on Fuji Television, titled "", and it featured several famous actors, including Ninomiya Kazunari, Matsushima Nanako, Tamaki Hiroshi, Kichise Michiko, Nishida Toshiyuki, and Sawamura Ikki. The main character, Suguro Takeru, modeled on Hercule Poirot, was played by actor Nomura Mansai.
Murder on the Orient Express
John Moffatt starred as Poirot in a five-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation by Michael Bakewell, directed by Enyd Williams, and originally broadcast from 28 December 1992 – 1 January 1993. André Maranne appeared as Bouc, Joss Ackland as Cassetti, Sylvia Syms as Mrs Hubbard, Siân Phillips as Princess Dragomiroff, Francesca Annis as Mary Debenham, and Peter Polycarpou as Dr Constantine.
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Ingrid Bergman in "Murder on the Orient Express"
Hercule Poirot
The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ("The Mysterious Affair at Styles"), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ("Curtain"), where he visits Styles before his death. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934).
Philip Martin (director)
He also wrote and directed the BBC Films documentary "Double Helix: The DNA Years" (2004), and directed the BBC television drama "Einstein and Eddington" (2008). In 2009, he directed the "Agatha Christie's Poirot" adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express", which was first broadcast in the United States in July 2010.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
"Murder on the Orient Express" grossed $102.8 million in North America, and $250 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $352.8 million, against a production budget of $55 million.
Death on the Nile
In November 2017, it was announced that 20th Century Fox is developing "Death on the Nile" as a sequel to their version of "Murder on the Orient Express." Michael Green was announced as penning the script and Kenneth Branagh was expected to return as Poirot and as director. It was originally scheduled for release on 20 December 2019, up against "", but on 16 October 2018, Fox delayed the film release date to 2 October 2020. On 28 September 2018, it was announced that Gal Gadot was the first member of the cast signed on to the film, playing the role of Linnet.The book was first serialized in the US in "The Saturday Evening Post" in eight installments from 15 May (Volume 209, Number 46) to 3 July 1937 (Volume 210, Number 1) with illustrations by Henry Raleigh.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
On the negative side, Matthew Jacobs of "The Huffington Post" was impressed by the cast, but ultimately felt "Agatha Christie's whodunit has no steam." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" found that there were many dull moments and that the film was a needless remake. Richard Roeper of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film two and a half stars, and stated that he felt it focused too much on Poirot to the detriment of the other characters, adding, "Never let it be said the director misses an opportunity to place his star front and center, unfortunately relegating just about everyone else in the obligatory international all-star cast to a paper-thin character with one or at most two defining personality traits." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of "The A.V. Club" rated the film a C+ and complained that Branagh's "erratic direction—more interested in cut glass and overhead shots than in suspicions and uncertainties—bungles both the perfect puzzle logic of the crime and its devious solution." Christopher Orr of "The Atlantic" said the film was "visually sumptuous yet otherwise inert" and summed up, ""Murder on the Orient Express" is not a bad movie per-se, merely one that feels self-indulgent and thoroughly unnecessary."
Death on the Nile (1978 film)
The film was expected to be popular with audiences following on the heels of "Murder on the Orient Express", the most successful British film up to that point. However, the box office return was $14.5 million in the United States, lower than the $25 million high for "Orient Express".
Von Ryan's Express
The novel was published in 1963. The novelist David Westheimer had been a POW during World War II. He witnessed the bombing of Bolzano in 1943 from a box car. The "New York Times" book reviewer said the novel "has everything for the screen but the camera directions."
Murder on the Iditarod Trail
Murder on the Iditarod Trail () is a book written by Sue Henry and published by Avon Books in 1991, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 1992.
Orient Express (board game)
Orient Express is a crime fiction board game published by Jumbo and Just Games. The game is based on the book "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie. The game was designed by Jeff Smets and released in 1985. The game contains 10 different murder cases, each of which can be played only once. Five new plots were released in 1987.
The Oxford Murders (novel)
The Oxford Murders (; "Imperceptible Crimes") is a novel by the Argentine author Guillermo Martínez, first published in 2003. It was translated into English in 2005 by Sonia Soto. The story tells about a professor of logic, who, along with a graduate student, investigates a series of bizarre, mathematically-based murders in Oxford, England.
The Murderer Is a Fox
The Murderer Is a Fox is a novel that was published in 1945 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel primarily set in the imaginary town of Wrightsville, US.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
A unique feature of "Murder on the Orient Express" is Poirot, who serves as a hint system for the duration of the game. The player can access Poirot at any time during the game, and can receive hints to help them proceed. The game has two difficulty levels, and the player can determine which one they prefer to play at soon after the murder occurs. Poirot challenges the player, allowing them to choose to either readily accept help from him and allow him to guide the player through the game, or alternatively try to outsmart the famous sleuth by solving the mystery with obscure, and in some cases nonexistent hints. If the player has trouble once they have chosen the more difficult setting, Poirot will gradually become more forthcoming with information.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
With the train back on track, Poirot concludes that justice is impossible in this case, as Cassetti deserved death; for the first time, Poirot will have to live with a lie and imbalance. He presents the lone killer theory to the Yugoslavian police, allowing the others to leave on the train. As he disembarks, a British Army messenger asks him to investigate a death on the Nile. Poirot accepts the case. The collective culprits led by Hubbard all go free.
Spil Games
Spil Games published Mahjong Crimes in November 2017; a new game bringing together Mahjong solitaire and the murder mystery "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.
Murder on the Mississippi
Murder on the Mississippi, fully titled as Murder on the Mississippi: The Adventures of Sir Charles Foxworth, is a 1986 detective adventure game developed and published by Activision for the Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and the Apple II computers. It was also licensed for release exclusively in Japan by Jaleco, who ported the game to the Nintendo Famicom and the MSX2 as . It is an adventure game in which the player must solve a murder mystery on the luxury ship "Delta Princess".
Murder Is Easy
Murder is Easy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 June 1939 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September of the same year under the title of Easy to Kill. Christie's recurring character, Superintendent Battle, has a cameo appearance at the end, but plays no part in either the solution of the mystery or the apprehension of the criminal. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
Mystery film
Agatha Christie's elegant "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) and "Death on the Nile" (1978) were colorful, lavish productions rich in 1930s period detail. Earlier, a series of lighthearted Miss Marple mysteries were loosely adapted from Christie's novels. Margaret Rutherford starred in "Murder, She Said" (1961), "Murder Most Foul" (1964), "Murder Ahoy!" (1965), and did a humorous cameo appearance as Marple in the Hercule Poirot mystery "The Alphabet Murders" (1965).
Murder on the Waterfront
Murder on the Waterfront is a 1943 American drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason and written by Robert E. Kent. The film stars Warren Douglas, Joan Winfield, John Loder, Ruth Ford, Bill Crago and Bill Kennedy. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 18, 1943.
Murder on the Orient Express
The US title of "Murder in the Calais Coach" was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel "Stamboul Train" which had been published in the United States as "Orient Express".
Crime fiction
Furthermore, only a select few authors have achieved the status of "classics" for their published works. A classic is any text that can be received and accepted universally, because they transcend context. A popular, well known example is Agatha Christie, whose texts, originally published between 1920 and her death in 1976, are available in UK and US editions in all English speaking nations. Christie's works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre. Her most famous novels include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and the world's best-selling mystery "And Then There Were None" (1939).
Aleppo
The opening scene in Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" takes place on the railway station in Aleppo: "It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express."
Stamboul Train
Stamboul Train (1932) is the second significant novel by Graham Greene. Set on an "Orient Express" train that ran from Ostend, Belgium, to Istanbul, Turkey, the book was renamed Orient Express when it was published in the United States. Greene in fact wrote three books before this one, but two were unsuccessful and he later disowned them, "The Name of Action" (1930) and "Rumour at Nightfall" (1932). "Stamboul Train" (1932) was Greene's first true success and it was taken on by the Book Society and in 1934 adapted as the film "Orient Express".
Murder on the Orient Express
Robert Barnard said that this novel was "The best of the railway stories. The Orient Express, snowed up in Yugoslavia, provides the ideal 'closed' set-up for a classic-style exercise in detection, as well as an excuse for an international cast-list. Contains my favourite line in all Christie: 'Poor creature, she's a Swede.' Impeccably clued, with a clever use of the Cyrillic script (cf. "The Double Clue"). The solution raised the ire of Raymond Chandler, but won't bother anyone who doesn't insist his detective fiction mirror real-life crime." The reference is to Chandler's criticism of Christie in his essay "The Simple Art of Murder".
Murder on the Orient Express
The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son in 1932 inspired that element in Christie's novel two years later. The film used many elements of the real life case: a young child, firstborn of the family, was kidnapped for ransom directly from the crib, the parents were famous, the father was a well known pilot and the mother pregnant, and the ransom was paid but the child found dead soon after. An innocent, but perhaps loose-lipped, maid employed by Lindbergh's parents was suspected of involvement in the crime. After being harshly interrogated by police, she committed suicide.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
The development team decided that, as with "And Then There Were None", they would change Christie's original ending for "Murder on the Orient Express". The aim of the developers was to create games that would not only appeal to casual gamers, but also to Christie fans. As nearly all Christie fans have read "Murder on the Orient Express", and know the solution, and considering that the novel was to be included with the game, the developers decided that the ending needed to be changed. The novel has two solutions – one being what appears to be happening and the other being what is actually occurring – and the developers aimed to develop a third solution which drew on these two solutions and still surprised the player. Lee Sheldon admitted that his variation to the ending of "And Then There Were None" received some criticism, and said that in "Murder on the Orient Express" changing the ending was even harder because of the sheer fame of the book and its solution. He also expressed his hatred of adaptations of older material which make fun of that time period, and said that he was trying to stay as faithful to Christie's work and time era as possible.
Murder on the Orient Express
The point and click computer game "" was released in November 2006 for Windows and expanded on Agatha Christie's original story with a new playable central character as Hercule Poirot (voiced by David Suchet) is ill and recovering in his train compartment.The story's first true publication was the US serialisation in six instalments in the "Saturday Evening Post" from 30 September to 4 November 1933 (Volume 206, Numbers 14 to 19). The title was "Murder in the Calais Coach", and it was illustrated by William C. Hoople.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Research was a major component of the developmental stages of "Murder on the Orient Express". Most of the research was focused on Yugoslavia in 1934, the game's setting. Sheldon focused on the political and scientific situation of this era, and explained his intensive research, saying "all of the puzzles have to be contextual. They all have to either help character, help story or define period." The developers also drew influence from a train museum outside Miami with an original Pullman carriage - the same as the carriages used on the Orient Express in the 1930s. The museum also contained a locomotive similar to the one the developers were looking for. The developers ended up using the train museum, several books about the Orient Express, the 1974 film version of Christie's novel, and the internet as research resources. With "Murder on the Orient Express" being the first Poirot game produced, Sheldon was careful that the game fitted into Christie's timeline of Poirot's exploits. The television series often took liberties with the time in which stories were set, but Sheldon was determined to keep everything in strict accordance with Christie's work. There are several references in the game to Poirot's earlier cases, all of which are chronologically accurate. This was partly so that Sheldon could use the culture of specific eras of time, and also so that in the future other Poirot-based games will be chronologically accurate.
Ruth Ware
In her crime books, Ware's writing style is often compared to that of Agatha Christie. Ware has admitted to being unconsciously influenced by Christie and other mystery novelists of that time. Ware's protagonists are usually ordinary women who find themselves in dangerous situations involving a crime. The first two of Ware's novels feature a murder mystery with a group of people trapped, or otherwise restricted from immediately escaping the dangerous environment. Christie was famously known for utilizing this plot device, in novels such as "Murder on the Orient Express." Ware and Christie both choose settings and situations that foster the sense of dread that propels their characters to paranoia and often they react violently as a result. These environments create a sense of isolation for the events to unfold in. Ware's settings play a key role in drawing in the reader and are just as essential and integral to her story as the characters.
Kenneth Branagh
Branagh directed and starred in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017) as Hercule Poirot. Production began in London in November 2016. Like Branagh's "Hamlet" in 1996, it is among the very few to use 65mm film cameras since 1970.
Murder on the Orient Express
The first night featured a storyline true to the original text, but set in Japan in 1933. In this version, the train "Orient Kyuukou" ran from the western city of Shimonoseki to Tokyo, with the train stopped by a small avalanche near Sekigahara, Gifu.
From Russia, with Love (novel)
The idea of the Orient Express came from two sources: Fleming had returned from the Istanbul conference in 1955 by the train, but found the experience drab, partly because the restaurant car was closed. He also knew of the story of Eugene Karp and his journey on the Orient Express: Karp was a US naval attaché and intelligence agent based in Budapest who, in February 1950, took the Orient Express from Budapest to Paris, carrying a number of papers about blown US spy networks in the Eastern Bloc. Soviet assassins were already on the train. The conductor was drugged and Karp's body was found shortly afterwards in a railway tunnel south of Salzburg. Fleming had a long-standing interest in trains and, following his involvement in a near-fatal crash in 1927, associated them with danger; they also feature in "Live and Let Die", "Diamonds Are Forever" and "The Man with the Golden Gun".
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
Leah Greenblatt of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film a B+, calling it "a lushly old-fashioned adaptation wrapped in a veritable turducken of pearls, monocles, and international movie stars." Blake Goble of "Consequence of Sound" said, "Handsomely staged, exceptionally well-cast, and reasonably faithful, Branagh has revived "Murder on the Orient Express" in a highly pleasing fashion." Trace Thurman of "Bloody Disgusting" gave the film three and a half skulls and said, "For those looking for an involving murder mystery that is respectful of its source material and filled with an all-star cast, look no further than "Murder on the Orient Express"." Matt Goldberg of "Collider" gave the film a B−, calling it a "handsomely crafted production," albeit one that "falls apart at the climax of the film." Josephine Livingstone of "The New Republic" praised the film's "stylized gorgeousness," but wrote that Branagh's change of "Poirot's fussiness ... into obsessive compulsive tendencies" was "less distinct and, ultimately, less interesting".
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
Murder on the Orient Express is a 2017 mystery thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film stars Branagh as Hercule Poirot, with Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daisy Ridley in supporting roles. The film is the fourth screen adaptation of Christie's novel, following the 1974 film, a 2001 TV film version, and a 2010 episode of the television series "Agatha Christie's Poirot". The plot follows Poirot, a world-renowned detective, as he seeks to solve a murder on the famous trans-European train in the 1930s.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
"Murder on the Orient Express" was used as a learning tool during a study on learner autonomy in video games. This study took Greek high school students and had them involved in several tests and evaluations at several different points of the study.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
A first look at the film and cast was released on May 3, 2017, in an exclusive article by "Entertainment Weekly".
The Benny Hill Show
Hill also used the television camera to create comedic illusions. For example, in a murder mystery farce entitled "Murder on the Oregon Express" from 1976 (a parody of "Murder on the Orient Express"), Hill used editing, camera angles and impersonations to depict a Quinn Martin–like TV "mystery" featuring Hill in the roles of 1970s American television detectives "Ironside", "McCloud", "Kojak" and "Cannon", plus Hercule Poirot.
Murder of Pamela Werner
"Midnight in Peking", French's account of the case, was published late in 2011 and became a bestseller in many of the countries in which it was published over the next two years. It won the 2013 Edgar Award for Fact Crime Writing and the Crime Writers' Association Non-fiction Dagger Award for the same year. For a time after publication French led walking tours of the areas of present-day Beijing's Dongcheng District where the investigation unfolded. Kudos Television bought the rights to adapt the story into a television serial shortly after the book's publication.
Murder on the Fourth of July
Murder on the Fourth of July is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery crossover novel, published in 1996.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
In February 2018, Fox scheduled "Death on the Nile" for release on November 8, 2019, with Branagh officially signed to direct and star. However, in June 2018, the film was pushed back to December 20, 2019. On October 16, 2018 the film was pushed back to October 2, 2020.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Since its release, "Murder on the Orient Express" has received widely differing reviews. GameRankings gave it a score of 65.22%, while Metacritic gave it 60 out of 100.
The Murder on the Links
"The Murder on the Links" was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on 16 July 2007, adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Marc Piskic (). This was translated from the edition first published in France by in 2003 under the title of "Le Crime du Golf".
Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Although the film was released long before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the character of Tarik is a thinly disguised Osama bin Laden. There are also some minor but obvious parallels to the 1974 film "Murder on the Orient Express", which is based on an Agatha Christie novel. These parallels almost exclusively concern the setting and the constellation of characters: There are no similarities whatsoever regarding the plot.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
Principal photography on the film began on November 22, 2016, in the United Kingdom, and concluded in May 2017. It used some of the same 65mm film cameras as Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk", which Branagh had acted in shortly before the production. The two were among the very few to be shot on 65 mm film since Branagh's "Hamlet" in 1996, and the only ones released in 2017. While in post-production, Branagh "was Skyped in from thousands of miles away" to watch Pfeiffer record an original song called "Never Forget" for the film's finale. "As soon as we added it on to the end of the film, it joined seamlessly and gave a moment of reflection and consideration that the film needed and wanted," said Branagh.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
An aspect of "Murder on the Orient Express" which many reviewers praised was the game's audio. The voice acting in particular gained widespread positive reviews. GameSpot called the voice acting excellent, with the voice actors bringing the characters to life, thanks largely to David Suchet as Poirot. IGN also called the voice acting well done, despite a few characters sounding artificial. Music in the game was positively reviewed by 2404, who said that it was tense at moments, but probably could have been played more frequently throughout the game. 2404 also praised the game for providing realistic sound effects, such as noises coming from the Orient Express itself, and other environmental noises such as howling wind. IGN, in contrast, heavily criticized the game for a lack of background music, and simplistic and monotonous sound effects.
Sidney Lumet
The subject of "guilt," explains Desser, dominates many of Lumet's films. From his first feature film, "12 Angry Men" (1957), in which a jury must decide the guilt or innocence of a young man, to "Q & A" (1990), in which a lawyer must determine the question of guilt and responsibility on the part of a maverick policeman, guilt is a common thread which runs through many of his films. In a film like "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), all of the suspects are guilty.
Charles G. Irion
Irion is an author and founder of Irion Books LLC which includes The Hell Series books ("Remodeling Hell", "Autograph Hell", "Car Dealer Hell", and "Divorce Hell"). Irion has also Authored the Summit Murder Mystery series which includes eight mystery novels about the Seven Summits. The Summit Murder Mystery Series includes: "Murder on Everest", "Abandoned on Everest", "Murder on Elbrus", "Murder on Mt. McKinley" and "Murder on Puncak Jaya", "Murder on Aconcagua", "Murder on Vinson Massif", and "Murder on Kilimanjaro". Irion is also the author and publisher of the wild game cookbook "Roadkill Cooking for Campers". Murdered by Gods - Machu Picchu is his newest release to date. Books are available to purchase from Amazon.com, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, KOBO and Audible.com.Irion has traveled to over 80 countries throughout the world. His travels include climbing in China as part of the Mount Everest Expedition in 1987, a climbing Expedition in Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2011 and a climbing expedition to Machu Picchu in June 2012. He sailed the Arabian Sea in 2017 and visited Petra, Jordan, Saudi, Arabia, and Abu Dhabi. And there's also his love for Indy Car Racing, and skydiving throughout Arizona. In 1988, Irion completed a week-long course in High Wall Mountain Rappelling conducted in the Bavarian Alps.
Traveling on One Leg
Published after Müller's emigration to Germany, it is cited in 2010's "History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe", along with "Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel" and "The Land of Green Plums", as drawing attention to her work in the West. The novel, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009, was published in English in 1998 by Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press, translated by Valentina Glajar and André Lefevere.
Murder in Mesopotamia
"Murder in Mesopotamia" was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on 1 July 2008, adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by "Chandre" (). This was translated from the edition first published in France by in 2005 under the title of "Meurtre en Mésopotamie".The book was first serialised in the US in "The Saturday Evening Post" in six instalments from 9 November (Volume 208, Number 19) to 14 December 1935 (Volume 208, Number 24) with illustrations by F. R. Gruger.