In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

This is how Agatha Christie describes Poirot in The Murder on the Orient Express in the initial pages:

As he passed through Eastern Europe on his return trip, he solved The Murder on the Orient Express.

It could be suggested that in Murder on the Orient Express Poirot allows the murderers to escape justice as well, after he discovers that twelve different people stabbed the victim – Mr. Ratchett – in his sleep.

In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ).

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express.

* Alfred Molina, Murder on the Orient Express, 2001 ( TV )

* Heini Göbel, ( 1954 ; an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express )

He established the first Ottoman railroad network and Sirkeci Train Station in Istanbul, terminus of the Orient Express.

The standard of the included ' clue ' material varies from scenario to scenario, but reached its zenith in the original boxed versions of the Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express campaigns.

Inside these one could find matchbooks and business cards apparently defaced by non-player characters, newspaper cuttings and ( in the case of Orient Express ) period passports to which players could attach their photographs, bringing a Live Action Role Playing feel to a tabletop game.

Christie's novels include, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

* 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.

* Murder on the Orient Express ( 2001 )

* 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock.

Likewise, most Agatha Christie books ( Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None being the exceptions ) cause Cardassians great difficulty, as, whilst the idea that a high-ranking person is killed in mysterious circumstances appeals, they cannot understand why only one person is guilty.

The station is the terminus and starting point of the Venice Simplon Orient Express from or to London Victoria and Paris.

* January 12 – Agatha Christie, English writer ( Murder On The Orient Express ) ( b. 1890 )

** The Orient Express begins operation.

Thereafter with the opening of the Gotthard ( 1881 ) and Simplon ( 1906 ) railway tunnels, Milan became the major South European rail focus for business and passenger movements e. g. the Simplon Orient Express.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.

In 1972, he appeared in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, and was one of the many stars featured in the 1974 hit Murder on the Orient Express.

* Malgonkar, Manohar The Sea Hawk: Life and Battles of Kanhoji Angrey, Orient Paperbacks, c. 1984

Life is cheap in the Orient.

His movie posters commissions included some of the most important and popular films of the 1970s including The Champ, Chinatown, Julia, The Last Picture Show, The Last Tycoon, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Muppet Movie, Murder on the Orient Express, Nashville, Papillon, The Shootist, and The Sting.

" Quarters of the news editor ", one a group of four photos in the brochure Seattle and the Orient ( 1900 ) collectively captioned " The Seattle Times | The Seattle Daily Times — Editorial Department "

The Times in its main paper gave the book a second review in its issue of July 2, 1935 when they described its plot as " ingenious " and commented on the fact that Christie had evolved a method of presenting a crime in a confined space ( with reference to The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express ) which " however often employed, never loses its originality.

A 1921 report appearing in the Africa Times and Orient Review, for which Marcus Garvey previously worked, quoted him regarding the importance of the flag:

Interesting Times is the seventeenth novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, set in the Aurient aka Orient.

* Shanti Sadiq Ali, The African Dispersal in the Deccan: From Medieval to Modern Times, Orient Blackswan, 1996

Beginning in 1910, Bruce served as American Correspondent for the African Times and Orient Review of London, England, edited by Dusé Mohamed Ali.

The African Times and Orient Review published an article contributed by Ferris wherein he praised an article previously contained in the same journal by Marcus Garvey.

Most notably, " Orient " and its Latin source oriens meaning " east ", is literally " rising ", deriving from Latin orior " rise ".

Claims to Fame: Most people today know Orient for the ferries to New London and for Orient Beach State Park.

Her first book, North to the Orient ( 1935 ) won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished General Nonfiction of 1935, voted by the American Booksellers Association.

Most of the many notable philosophical, religious and literary works of the Jews in the Orient were written in Arabic using a modified Hebrew alphabet.

Most of Hackländer's very numerous works have remained unreprinted, but a handful have lasted into, or been revived in, more recent times, including: two collections of fairy stories, Der Leibschneider der Zwerge and Weihnachtsmärchen ; the travel book Reise in den Orient, as well as some pieces on the Rhine included with works by other authors in Rheinfahrt ; and two of the many autobiographical works, Handel und Wandel, which describes in lightly fictionalised form his dissatisfied early life as cheap labour in a small shop, and Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, ein Preusse in Schwaben, which deals with his experiences in Württemberg.

Most of his books were published in India by Orient Paperbacks or by Rupa Paperbacks.