This book certainly fits the bill with its deliberate reference to Agatha Christie's title, and Christmas thrown in. Bouc has taken the last first-class cabin, but on the first morning he arranges to move to a separate coach and gives Poirot his space. As the seventeen strangers and three staff wait for the line to be cleared, a dead body is discovered.

Her Christmas mysteries, The Christmas Murder Game and Murder on the Christmas Express,were both bestsellers, and The Christmas Murder Game was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. And in this case it’s worse than just misleading the reader, it’s dressing content that is very upsetting to a segment of readers up in a cute Christmas outfit. Pocket Books (New York) (with cover illustration of the cast of Sidney Lumet's movie by Allan Mardon [misspelled "Marden"]) November 1974, 34th printing, Paperback, viii, 198 p. Roz's train is still running, but with a tree on the tracks, a derailment and now a couple of murders, it seems unlikely she will make it. Arbuthnot remarks that Cassetti should have been found guilty in a second trial instead of murdered, and Hardman admits he is actually a MacNeil Agency private detective who was asked to watch out for an assassin that was stalking Cassetti.It comes across here as an attempt to be relevant: hey, kids, my characters use Twitter and TikTok and Google and e-cigarettes and wear skinny jeans and are influencers and reality TV stars and are totally topical. Count Rudolph Andrenyi: husband of Countess Andrenyi, who took his wife's place as the twelfth murderer. The voice cast featured Vsevolod Yakut as Poirot, Rostislav Plyatt as Colonel Arbuthnot, Maria Babanova as Hubbard, Oleg Yefremov as Hector McQueen, Leonid Kanevsky as Antonio Foscarelli, Angelina Stepanova as Princess Dragomiroff and Alexander Lazarev as Hardman. Poirot is portrayed as significantly younger and less eccentric than Christie's detective, and is given a subplot involving a romantic relationship with Vera Rosakoff, who is loosely based on an infrequently recurring character of the same name.

Like many real passengers, Roz notices the glimpsed lives of people as the train passes their houses, but as she 'became aware of thousands of parallel lives', she feels that 'Like every small part of the train, each life was integral. Murder on the Christmas Express is a locked room mystery with shades of Murder on the Orient Express. Two less notable events helped inspire her novel: Agatha Christie's first journey on the Orient Express in late 1928, and a blizzard near Çerkezköy, Turkey, that marooned the Orient Express for six days just a few months later, in February 1929. Roz is a retired police officer, taking the Highland sleeper to her daughter in Fort William who is currently in labour. This book should come with multiple trigger warnings, it includes the topics of rape, domestic violence, pregnancy/birth trauma, right from the start.Hubbard had Ohlsson lock the communicating door between her compartment and that of Cassetti, which invalidates her story of the man in her compartment, and Schmidt bumped into a stranger wearing a Wagons-Lits uniform. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. I liked Roz and enjoyed the role she played in solving the crime as well as preventing total anarchy on board the train! Yes, it was probably inspired by the title, and someone dies on a train so everyone is a suspect, but this is where the similarities end. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.