Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) years earlier, in which a baby was kidnapped and then murdered. (The fictitious Armstrong case was apparently inspired by the real-life kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.) 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
Murder on the Nile Murder on the Nile Murder on the Nile (sometimes titled Hidden Horizon) is a 1944 murder mystery play by crime writer Agatha Christie, based on her 1937 novel "Death on the Nile". The notable John Anderson chose to portray McNaught in this play before retiring from the stage. The play is based on her 1937 novel "Death on the Nile" which in itself started off as a play which Christie called "Moon on the Nile". Once written, she decided it would do better as a book and she only resurrected the play version in 1942 when she was in the