Although well-known thanks to the Christie book and movie, The Orient Express has in fact never been a specific train, but a scheduled service that has operated the Paris to Istanbul route for the last 140 years.
Agatha Christie’s literary classic, Murder on the Orient Express, about a famous detective who is called to investigate a grisly murder aboard a train he is a passenger on, has been adapted to film several times. The best known adaptation is that of Sidney Lumet in 1974, who assembled a stellar cast to deliver an […]