The rest of the novel takes place in Yugoslavia, with the train trapped between Vinkovci and Brod. The opening chapters of the novel take place primarily in Istanbul. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the case. The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2. 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. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
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