
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
1841

Agatha Christie · 1934
240 pages
A snowdrift halts the Orient Express, and by morning an American passenger is found stabbed in his locked compartment. With the train stranded, Hercule Poirot questions thirteen passengers whose accounts do not add up, and uncovers the threads of an old crime.
Locked Room Mystery, Eccentric Detective, Twist Ending, Train Journey, Revenge