THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME--NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! The murderer is with us--on the train now . . . Just after midnight the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment stabbed a dozen times his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man s enemies before the murderer decides to strike again. What more . . . can a mystery addict desire? -- New York Times