Teacher Guide

Murder on the Orient Express Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Other works by Agatha Christie

- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s debut novel and Poirot’s first appearance.

- The Mousetrap, one of the longest-running plays in history, also dramatized frequently.

- Death on the Nile, a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express

- Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last of Christie’s novels with Poirot as detective

Films

- Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile

- Sidney Lumet’s 1974 version, which received six Academy Award nominations

- (Website) 15 Best Agatha Christie Movie Adaptations, According to IMDb

Other beloved detective novels from the period

- Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors

- Patricia Wentworth...

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