Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie [96]
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by Agatha Christie
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“Essay by Charles Osborne” excerpted from The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie. Copyright © 1982, 1999 by Charles Osborne. Reprinted with permission.
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18 In Autobiography.
20 Quoted in Gwen Robyns: The Mystery of Agatha Christie.
19 For a history of ‘the world’s most famous train’, from its beginning in 1883 to near its demise, the reader is referred to Orient Express by Michael Barsley (London, 1966).