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
On the Murder of Eratosthenes characterisation which supports Euphiletos' main arguments, that the murder was not premeditated and that the murder was justified in the interests of the whole community. It accomplishes the former by presenting him as too simple and straightforward to have engaged in the kind of deception and premeditation alleged by his accusers, and the latter by encouraging the audience of jurors to identify with him and his situation. It was crucial that Lysias established that the murder of Eratosthenes was not premeditated. The prosecution case was that Euphiletos had entrapped Eratosthenes, and was therefore guilty of intentional homicide. Lysias has Euphiletos