The U.S. title of Murder on the Train was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the United States as Orient Express.
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| - The U.S. title of Murder on the Train was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the United States as Orient Express.
- In 2986, Lasky read it in the lounge of the starliner Hyperion III. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids) The Eleventh Doctor sarcastically pointed out to Janet Rutherford that "Notes on the Autonomous Reasoning Center" was as interesting a title as Murder on the Orient Express. (COMIC: The Sound of Our Voices)
- Murder on the Orient Express, or Murder in the Calais Coach, is an Agatha Christie detective fiction murder mystery first published in 1934. Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, is ready to return from his case in Syria when he is snowbound on the Orient Express. He is disturbed in his sleep by dead quiet and a passing figure in a red kimono, and when he awakes, the contemptible Ratchett is found having been stabbed 12 times to death. Poirot discovers he was actually a notorious American gangster, who had kidnapped and murdered a three-year-old heiress. The mystery begins to unravel as he discovers that the passengers have connections to the murdered man and the family of the child that man murdered.
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| - Murder on the Orient Express, or Murder in the Calais Coach, is an Agatha Christie detective fiction murder mystery first published in 1934. Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, is ready to return from his case in Syria when he is snowbound on the Orient Express. He is disturbed in his sleep by dead quiet and a passing figure in a red kimono, and when he awakes, the contemptible Ratchett is found having been stabbed 12 times to death. Poirot discovers he was actually a notorious American gangster, who had kidnapped and murdered a three-year-old heiress. The mystery begins to unravel as he discovers that the passengers have connections to the murdered man and the family of the child that man murdered. The book was made into a successful movie in 1974, again into a Made for TV Movie in 2001, and once again in 2010 for David Suchet's Poirot.
- The U.S. title of Murder on the Train was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the United States as Orient Express.
- In 2986, Lasky read it in the lounge of the starliner Hyperion III. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids) The Eleventh Doctor sarcastically pointed out to Janet Rutherford that "Notes on the Autonomous Reasoning Center" was as interesting a title as Murder on the Orient Express. (COMIC: The Sound of Our Voices)
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