Show Plot Murder on the Orient Express

Authors: Ken Ludwig (adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie)

Time Period: Winter of 1934

Setting: A train station in Istanbul and the carriages of the Orient Express train

Summary:  Detective Hercule Poirot boards the luxury Orient Express. A massive snowdrift halts the train in the middle of the night, and American tycoon Samuel Ratchett is found stabbed to death in his locked compartment.  As Poirot investigates the diverse passengers. and slowly unravels their secrets, he frustratingly finds that every clue points in a different direction.