Murder on the Orient Express in the back pages of the UK first editions of "The Listerdale Mystery", "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", and "Parker Pyne Investigates" claimed that "Murder on the Orient Express" had proven to be Christie's best-selling book to date and the best-selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series. Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28
The Gate of Calais Finchley", which he painted in 1749/50, provides a companion theme to "The Gate of Calais": it depicts a fictional gathering of robust English guardsman who are to march north to defend London against the invasion of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites in 1745. Further anti-French sentiment is apparent in his two "Invasion" engravings, published in 1756, and in "Beer Street", where Rev. James Townley's accompanying verses stress the superiority of the English. "The Gate of Calais" secondary title, "O, the Roast Beef of Old England", is a reference to the popular patriotic ballad 'The Roast Beef of Old England' from Henry