Murder on the Orient Express 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 February 1934, under the title of "Murder in the Calais Coach," by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the U.S. edition at $2.00. The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall, with many passengers.
Thieves Like Us (novel) noir crime films of its time. A second film version was later made by Robert Altman in 1974 and released by United Artists studios under the same title as the original book, "Thieves Like Us". In September 2010, The House Theatre of Chicago produced an original live theater adaptation of the script. The production, at Chopin Theatre, ran for four weeks. Thieves Like Us (novel) Thieves Like Us was the second and last published novel written by Edward Anderson (1905–1969). It was published in 1937 by Frederick A. Stokes. See: "Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s" by