Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

Part1 The Facts

1 An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express

2 The Tokatlian Hotel

3 Poirot Refuses a Case

4 A Cry Inthe Night

5 The Crime

6 A Woman?

7 The Body

8 The Armstrong Kidnapping Case

Part2 The Evidence

1 The Evidence of the Wagon Lit Conductor

2 The Evidence of The seeretary

3 The Evidence of the Valet

4 The Evidence of the American Lady

5 The evidence of the Swedish Lady

6 The Evidence of the Russian Princess

7 The Evidence of Count and Countess Andrenyi

8 The Evidence of Colonel Arbouthnor

9 The Evidence of Mr Hardman

10 The Evidence of the Italian

11 The Evidence of Miss Debenham

12 The Evidence of the German Lady s-Maid

13 Summary of the Passengers Evidence

14 The Evidence of the weapon

15 The Evidence of the Passengers Luggage

Part3 Hercule Polrot Sits Back and Thinks

1 Which of Them?

2 Ten Questions

3 Certain Suggestive Points

4 The Grease Spot on a Hungarian Passport

5 The Christian Name of Princess Dragomiroff

6 A Second Interview with Colonel Arbuthnot

7 The Identity of Mary Debenham

8 Further Surprising Revelations

9 Poirot Propounds Two Solutions