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.
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