Christie, Agatha  
  
  
    Just after midnight
 the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift.  By morning
 the millionaire
 Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment
 stabbed a dozen times.  His door is locked from the inside.  Without a shred of doubt
 one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.  Isolated by the storm
 detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies
 before the murderer decides to strike again.