All my life I had wanted to go on the Orient Express. When I had travelled to France or Spain or Italy, the Orient Express had often been standing at Calais and I had longed to climb up into it. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography.
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1934 murder-mystery novel by English author Agatha Christie. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928/00/00 | Agatha Christie | Life | Agatha Christie travels on the Simplon-Orient Express to Istanbul. From Istanbul she journeys on to Damascus then to Baghdad. | ||||
| 1929/00/00 | Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits | Operator | The Orient Express gets stranded in the snow at least 80km from Istanbul. | ||||
| 1930/00/00 | Agatha Christie | Life | Standing on the train platform in Calais, Agatha Christie slips on ice and falls underneath an Orient Express train. A porter pulls her up from the track before the train starts moving. "It was luck that she lived to write the book." Max | Calais | Hauts-de-France | ||
| 1931/00/00 | Agatha Christie | Life | Agatha Christie and the Orient Express train halts as the tracks are flooded during a storm. "My darling, what a journey! Started out from Istanbul in a violent thunder storm. We went very slowly during the night and about 3 AM stopped altogether." AC | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Hector Willard MacQueen | Mr Ratchett's secretary | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Count Andryeni | Count | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Agatha Christie | Author | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Miss Greta Ohlsson | Swedish missionary | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Edward Henry Masterman | Mr Ratchett's valet | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Princess Natalia Dragomiroff | 1st Class passenger | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Hercule Poirot | Private Detective | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Pierre Michel | Train conductor | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Colonel Arbuthnot | British Army officer | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Miss Mary Debenham | English governess | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Monsieur Bouc | Director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Cyrus Hardman | American typewriter ribon salesman | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Mrs Hubbard | American lady | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Fraulein Hildegarde Schmidt | Princess Dragomiroff's maid | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Mr Ratchett | American buisnessman | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | The Saturday Evening Post | Publisher | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Countess Andrenyi | Countest | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Antonio Foscarelli | Car salesman from Chicago | Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is published in the US in a six-installment serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "Murder on the Calais Coach". | ||||
| 1934/01/01 | Collins Crime Club | Publisher | Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" is arrives in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club. | ||||
| 1974/11/21 | Agatha Christie | Author | Directed by Sidney Lumet, Queen Elizabeth II and Agatha Christie attend the Royal World Charity Premiere of the "Murder on the Orient Express" film at the ABC Shaftesbury Ave, London. It will be Christie's last public appearance. | Former Saville Theatre | London | ||
| 1974/11/21 | Sidney Lumet | Director | Directed by Sidney Lumet, Queen Elizabeth II and Agatha Christie attend the Royal World Charity Premiere of the "Murder on the Orient Express" film at the ABC Shaftesbury Ave, London. It will be Christie's last public appearance. | Former Saville Theatre | London | ||
| 1974/11/21 | Elizabeth II of England | Dignitary | Directed by Sidney Lumet, Queen Elizabeth II and Agatha Christie attend the Royal World Charity Premiere of the "Murder on the Orient Express" film at the ABC Shaftesbury Ave, London. It will be Christie's last public appearance. | Former Saville Theatre | London | ||
| 2017/11/02 | To promote the premiere of Kenneth Branagh's film version of Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express", an original Orient Express train arrives at St Pancras railway station in London pulling a carriage that had been used by Christie. | St Pancras Station And Former Midland Grand Hotel | London | ||||
| 2017/11/02 | Kenneth Branagh | Director | Featuring an all-star cast, Kenneth Branagh's film version of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" premieres at the Royal Albert Hall. | Royal Albert Hall | London |
| Particulars for Murder on the Orient Express (book): | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Crime | Crime | ||
| Narrative Arts | Detective | a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Murder | the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another | |
| Narrative Arts | Mystery | something not understood or beyond understanding | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Conveyance Category | Railway | travel by locomotive railroad | |
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