Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 2001 made-for-television mystery film directed by Carl Schenkel based on the 1934 novel "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot. This version is set in the present day and has a smaller cast than the novel. The screenplay was written by Stephen Harrigan and the original music score was composed by Christopher Franke. Hercule Poirot is travelling on the "Orient Express". While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train
The Black Angel (novel) 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 to leave his wife for her. After he is arrested and sentenced to death, the story is narrated by