Some entries into the detective fiction genre are so highly regarded, so genre-defining that it would be a crime to even attempt to rank them in any kind of list, lest their impact on our criminal world be diminished even in the slightest. Written by one of the four queens of crime Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express redfined the murder mystery genre on its release in 1934. Set on the culturally diverse train of the Orient Express as it makes its way through a continent-spanning trip, the ever classy and lovable Hercule Poirot takes a compartment next to a vulgar American man known only as Ratchett, who recognises Poirot and implores him as protection, as he fears someone is out for his life.

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