An international cast of suspects, all passengers for the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy Western european landscape whenever a bizarre and terrible murder brings these to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering quantity lies inactive in his cabin, stabbed a strange twelve times. There is no lack of signs for Poirot – but which hint is actual and which is a smart flower? Poirot realises that time he’s coping with a murderer of tremendous cunning which within a case frought with fear and inconstencies only one thing is certain – the murderer is still aboard the train waiting to hit once again… John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot, having a stellar ensemble including Joss Ackland, Sylvia Syms, Francesca Annis, and Siân Phillips.

Soon to be released like a film, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Penelope Cruz, Olivia Coleman, Dame Judi Dench, Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi, and Michele Pfeiffer, The Murder on the Orient Express is a perennial basic.