Additional text "Agatha Christie's indelibly etched characters have entertained millions across the years and a love of her work has brough together generations of readers-a singular achievement for any author and an inspiration to writers across the literary landscape." Information about the author Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976. Blurb text Agatha Christie's most famous Hercule Poirot mystery! Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.