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 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