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Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1934, in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company and later in the same year under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

The book was first serialized in the US in the Saturday Evening Post, from July 1 to September 30, 1933.

Characters
The Victim:

Mr. Ratchett, an unsavory-looking man with a dark secret.
The thirteen suspects:

Hector McQueen, a tall, handsome, young American man, the victim's secretary and translator.
Edward Henry Masterman, the victim's British valet.
Pierre Michel, the French conductor of the Calais coach.
Mary Debenham, a tall, dark, young British woman, working as a governess in Baghdad.
Colonel Arbuthnot, a tall British army