IS BASED ON…
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie’s 1934 detective novel Murder on the Orient Express has adapted before with a 1974 film starring Albert Finney as Poirot and a CBS made-for-tv movie starring Alfred Molina.
It has also been adapted as a 5-part BBC Radio 4 show, a Japanese tv broadcast and a computer game. It has also been referenced many times in various media including an episode of Futurama called “Murder on the Planet Express” and on Family Guy.
The book is about a murder which occurs aboard a train from Istanbul on which detective Hercule Poirot is traveling.