The story was inspired by a journey Christie herself took on the luxurious Orient Express in 1928 and a blizzard that stranded the train for six days near Turkey just a few months later. In this stage adaptation by US playwright Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), heavy snowfall traps Poirot on board with a cast of colourful suspects for the brutal killing of a passenger from America in a first-class compartment. “I was one of the first to discover the body, in the very same carriage that I am travelling in.
Author: Joanna Wane
Published at: 2025-04-12 20:00:00
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