Hercule Poirot Mysteries Series This is the story of one thrillingly exotic journey, one brutally stabbed victim, and seventeen suspicious suspects. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is full, but by the morning there is one less passenger. A man lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside...Many obstacles are put in Poirot's path to try and keep him off the scent but in a dramatic finale he succeeds in coming up with two solutions to the crime.