Other editions of book MURDER ON THE CALAIS COACH

Agatha' Christie's novel featuring Hercule Piorot, Murder on the Orient Express, was first published by Collins Crime Club in the United Kingdom in 1934. Later that year the book hit American shores as Murder in the Calais Coach. The American title was chosen to avoid public confusion with another "double-titled" book, Graham Greene's Stamboul Train, published in the USA as Orient Express. This title that was eventually phased out after Dodd & Mead's original hardcover editions and a paperback edition went out of print. The novel was adapted into a feature film in 1974.

En route to Paris, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has booked winter passage on the fabled Orient Express. Among the curious assortment of fellow passengers, one wealthy American holds a unique distinction: He has been found dead of multiple stab wounds in the night compartment of the Calais coach. 'By dawn, thirteen travelers, each bearing a secret, will find themselves suspect in the most ingenious crime Poirot has ever solved... This is #9 in the Hercule Poirot series. This is Pocket Book #80018

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again . . .