From the Bookshelf of The Agatha Christie Reading Group

Murder on the Orient Express
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Start date
June 22, 2021
Finish date
June 30, 2021
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C. J. Scurria
Why we're reading this
A well-known book from the Poirot series of many books. Can our "grey cells" handle this one? Maybe but "…more

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Trish at Between My Lines
Jul 13, 2015 rated it really liked it
Five Classic Reasons to dust off and read Murder on the Orient Express :

The old fashioned opulent setting of the Orient Express. The descriptions don’t sound very luxurious by today’s standards but it still screams romance and elegance and travel and adventure. A trip is well outside my budget but at least I can journey via this book.

Poirot! Need I say more! I really enjoy this witty, vain moustached detective whose brain runs rings around mine! I empathise with all the other chara
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Mustansir Chudawala
Nov 12, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: my-shelf, murder
Reviewing a Murder-Detective Book is very difficult as you have to fill in the details which turns out to be spoilers for those who haven't read the book.

Murder on the Orient Express might not be the one of the best of Agatha Christie's ( my POV ) but it is certainly one the most delightful read . You hate the one who has been murdered and you feel that the murderer has done a great job by killing that bastard . In a way you feel sympathetic towards the murderer. It makes good read. Plus the fin
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Edward Davies
Aug 10, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Possibly Christie's most famous novel, this has the ending anyone familiar with the book or the adaptations can't help but enjoy. I won't spoil things for those that don't know, but the setup for the concluding chapter is well thought through and has one of the best mystery-solving step-by-step guides I've seen her write thus far. ...more
Hiran Palothpoyil
Apr 10, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: agatha-christie
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Nour Jurdi
Jan 07, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Danielle
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