DETECTIVE: Hercule Poirot
ALLIES: Monsieur Bouc, Dr. Constantine
OTHER CHARACTERS: Ratchett, Pierre Michel, Hector MacQueen, Edward Masterman, Mrs. Hubbard, Greta Ohlsson, Princess Dragomiroff, Count & Countess Andrenyi, Colonel Arbuthnot, Cyrus Hardman, Antonio Foscarelli, Mary Debenham, Hildegarde Schmidt
SUMMARY: Having been on vacation in Syria, Poirot boards the Orient Express on a return trip to England. But his return is waylaid when the train becomes snowbound in the Balkans. To make matters worse, one of the male passengers is discovered dead with twelve stab wounds in his chest. And since there are no footprints in the snow outside, the murderer is still on the train.....
NUMBER OF DEATHS: 1
METHOD OF MURDER: stabbing