An American lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks somewhere in the forests of Yugoslavia. While aboard the Orient Express Poirot meets a host of peculiar characters: an aging Russian princess, her Swedish companion, a Hungarian countess, a Minnesota housewife, a Scottish colonel, an English governess, a French conductor, a disagreeable American businessman, and his anxious secretary. Famous detective Hercule Poirot is called back from Istanbul to London on urgent business.
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