Murder on the Orient Express The story's first true publication was the US serialisation in six instalments in the "Saturday Evening Post" from 30 September to 4 November 1933 (Volume 206, Numbers 14 to 19). The title was "Murder in the Calais Coach", and it was illustrated by William C. Hoople. The UK serialisation appeared after book publication, appearing in three instalments in the "Grand Magazine", in March, April, and May 1934 (Issues 349 to 351). This version was abridged from the book version (losing some 25% of the text), was without chapter divisions, and named the Russian princess as Dragiloff instead of Dragomiroff. Advertisements
The Murder on the Links in the 1928 short story "Double Sin" which was published in book form in the US in "Double Sin and Other Stories" in 1961 and in the UK in "Poirot's Early Cases" in 1974. Some plot twists are inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange". The novel received its first true publication as a four-part serialisation in the "Grand Magazine" from December 1922 to March 1923 (Issues 214–217) under the title of "The Girl with the Anxious Eyes" before it was issued in book form by The Bodley Head in May 1923. This was Christie's