The Orient Express By Agatha Christie

The Orient express by Agatha Christie is the best selling novel in the 1930’s . One of the series and adventures for Hercule Poirot the best detective, faced his hardest case yet. The story is about the great detective Hercule Poirot trying to solve the case on who killed the wanted criminal Rachette , this novel is taken place in the 1930’s in a snow storm which later on gets the train stuck . Later on as Hercule is trying to figure out who has murder the man he finds out something more deeper about the criminals death. The characters in the novel were Poirot, M.Bouc (director of the wagon Lits, former worker with Poirot) , Dr.Constantine (corner aboard the train), Mary Debenham( Daisy Armstrongs governess)Mrs. Hubbard (actual name LInda Arden Daisy Armstrong grandmother), Princess Dragomiroff (Russian princess tells Poirot lies about everyone's identities), Hector McQueen ( Ratchets secretary in cahoots with the Armstrong family) Ratchett( Real name is Cassetti, kidnapped and murdered Daisy Armstrong, Murdered on the Orient Express), countess Andrenyi(Aunt of Daisy Armstrong did not kill Ratchett), count Andrenyi(Takes blame for his wife's crime), Cyrus Hardman(Tries to help poirot but is part of the crime), Antonio Foscarelli(Italian, Armstrongs chauffeur), Greta Ohlsson,Hildegarde Schmidt(Armstrong’s cook), Edward Henry Masterman(Ratchette’s valet), Pierre Michel(father …show more content…
But I feel like the reason why directors or writers may change the story they way they do is to attract the viewers more into the story . As the novel is very well written and is a very good read I would understand why they would make two remakes of the movie to the book. Yes there are some differences in the movie but they are more minor than what other remakes make there movies out to be . I would still recommend this book to others and also the movie if they enjoy the book and like to see it in a different