Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” 

This is probably one of the most famous books of Agatha Christie. I have a friend who is a huge fan of hers and she would talk for hours about her and her works.

Sadly, I don't share that with her.

As I said this the first book that I read from Agatha Christie, probably it won't be the last if I am honest.

Book Summary from GoodReads:

What more can a mystery addict desire than a much-loathed murder victim found aboard the luxurious Orient Express with multiple stab wounds, thirteen likely suspects, an incomparably brilliant detective in Hercule Poirot, and the most ingenious crime ever conceived?

The plot is quite straightforward: there was a murder and Poirot was going to solve it. The murder was orchestrated in an impossible way: all the clues were contradictory to one another. And Poirot with a methodical patience finally managed to unmistakably identify all the parts of the murder: who did it, how and why. 

The thing that left me overwhelmed with the book was first the fact that the book itself was so short and it didn't really have time to make the story extremely detailed and full with suspension. The second thing was that by the third part of the book I've already guessed who did it, and was a bit let down since I've heard so much about the author's ability of surprising endings. And finally as a whole I'm not a fan of the genre, and I've never really been interested in criminal stories, but for the sake of breaking out of the usual stuff I read I decided to give it a go.

With all that said, however I'll probably read something else of Agatha Christie. Despite the three main points I've already mentioned it was an easy and entertaining read.