Solve Mysteries!
Companion Activities | Read Review of Murder on the Orient Express Here
1)
Read more hercule Poirot
2) Research the luxury travel trains & the lindbergh Kidnapping
3) Create maps of the Settings in the mystery
4) Watch the movies!
5)Write your own
Read at least one of Agatha Christie’s other famous works of detective fiction such as Death on the Nile. Compare and contrast two cases solved by Hercule Poirot. Consider utilizing a Venn diagram.
Write a character sketch of one of the passengers on the Calais coach based on the details Christie provides within the text of Murder on the Orient Express.
Using Internet searches, research and write about the famed luxury travel train, the Orient Express, or the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Internet searches may also lead inquisitive students to learn about Agatha Christie’s most famous case, her own real-life disappearance for eleven days in December of 1926. The 95-year-old case has never been solved. Write a sensational news story about the author’s disappearance that might have appeared in tabloids of that era.
Draw a sketch of the rooms and compartments of the passengers aboard the Calais coach. Who slept where?
Create a map of Europe that notes the countries and great cities through which the Orient Express travels en route from Istanbul to Paris.
Enter in a detective journal vocabulary from detective fiction that may be encountered for the first time. Such words and phrases include sleuth, conundrum, police procedural, red herrings, and roman à clef. What is the etymology of these terms?
Enjoy one of at least three movie versions of Murder on the Orient Express. The 1974 British film, starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, is the only cinema treatment of her crime novels that Agatha Christie truly enjoyed. See also the BBC TV version (2007), starring David Suchet, and the most recent treatment, starring Kenneth Branagh (20th Century Fox, 2017). Which film is the most faithful to Christie’s original novel?
Finally, readers may want to pen brand new mystery adventures for juvenile sleuths such as Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys that occur aboard trains, boats, airplanes, or on remote islands.
