Murder on the Orient Express A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the murder. The US title of "Murder in the Calais Coach" was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel "Stamboul Train" which had been published in the United States as "Orient Express". After taking the Taurus Express from Aleppo in Syria to Istanbul, private detective Hercule Poirot arrives at the Tokatlian Hotel. There he receives a telegram prompting him to return to London. He instructs the concierge to book a first-class compartment on the Simplon-route Orient Express service, leaving
The Black Angel (novel) All I could keep thinking of in the dark was: Is that what I wasted my whole life at?" The Black Angel (novel) The Black Angel is a 1943 novel by Cornell Woolrich, which was based on two of his own short stories, "Murder in Wax" and "Face Work" (later reissued under the title "Angel Face"). Woolrich had reworked many of his short stories into full-length novels, including "Black Angel". “Murder In Wax” was first published in the pulp magazine Dime Detective in March 1935, a short story in which a man's mistress is murdered, right before he is about