Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie follows famed detective Hercule Poirot aboard the luxurious Orient Express train, which becomes stranded in a snowdrift. During the night, an American passenger, Samuel Ratchett, is found stabbed twelve times in his locked compartment. With the train immobilized, the killer must still be aboard. Poirot methodically interrogates twelve diverse passengers, uncovering that each is secretly connected to the Armstrong family, whose young daughter was kidnapped and murdered years earlier. In a brilliant twist, Poirot concludes that all twelve conspired in the killing as an act of justice. He offers a fabricated alternative solution, allowing the vigilantes to escape punishment.
