Murder on the Orient Express

I haven't decided yet whether to take part in Polyxena's #librarytwittermysteryamonth challenge or not (think i'll wait and see what books are being read) but the January book was Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, which is one of my favourite Agatha's so I thought "what the heck..."

Poirot is travelling on the Orient Express between Istanbul and Calais when the train is stranded in a snowdrift.

A passenger is found murdered in his locked compartment on the train and with the train cut off it is up to Poirot to solve the murder.

His job is complicated because the victim is widely loathed and several passengers on board the train have a motive for murder.

We were in Salzburg about 20 years ago and heard that the Orient Express would be at Salzburg station for a 30 minute stop at midnight that night.

Guess who was at the station at 11.45pm and when the train pulled in we leapt on board and walked the length of the train (twice) .

We didn't find any dead bodies in locked compartments (nor did we see Hercule Poirot) but it did bring the book to life for us.

And re-reading the book now makes we want to go and find the photos we took at the time.