"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. One of his fellow passengers must be 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 . . .


由伊斯坦堡開往歐洲的辛普倫快車上發生了一宗命案，富商雷契特被發現陳屍在臥鋪包廂內。大名鼎鼎的偵探白羅正巧也搭乘這輛列車，他受任職於鐵路公司的老友所託，開始了曲折離奇的破案過程。

命案現場留下的線索詭異難辨，兇手看似既是男人又是女人，既慣用右手又是左撇子，既強壯有力又軟弱無力。白羅一一與同車的十二位旅客談話，但所得的結果就和命案現場的線索一樣，矛盾處處。

經過白羅一番抽絲剝繭，令人無法置信的事實終於公佈在眾人面前，然而正義應如何伸張，則考驗著每個讀者的智慧

——中文簡介摘自遠流出版《東方快車謀殺案》