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''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'', or ''Murder in the Calais Coach'', is an [[Agatha Christie]] detective fiction murder mystery first published in 1934. [[Hercule Poirot]], the famous [[Belgium|Belgian]] detective, is ready to return from his case in [[Syria]] when he is snowbound on the Orient Express. He is disturbed in his sleep by dead quiet and a passing figure in a red kimono, and when he awakes, the contemptible Ratchett is found having been stabbed 12 times to death. Poirot discovers he was actually a notorious [[The United States|American]] gangster, who had kidnapped and murdered a three-year-old heiress. The mystery begins to unravel as he discovers that the passengers have connections to the murdered man and the family of the child that man murdered.