A new recording of the most widely read mystery of all time, performed by Kenneth Branagh. Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, releasing November 10, 2017 and directed by Kenneth Branagh. "The murderer is with us - on the train now..." 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. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. "What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?"-- New York Times "[Moves] smoothly and entertainingly to its surprise conclusion." -- "Chicago Daily Tribune" "A brilliantly ingenious story." -- "Dorothy L. Sayers, New York Times bestselling author" "Kenneth Branagh offers a full-cast performance all by himself in this delicious production of a 1934 Christie classic...It's breathtaking. Make it your next listen. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." -- "AudioFile" "Need it be said--the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs. Christie...keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." -- "Times Literary Supplement (London)" "Nothing short of swell. [Christie] is probably the best suspicion scatterer and diverter in the business." -- "New York Herald Tribune" 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, after a prolific career spanning six decades. Kenneth Branagh, was already a celebrated stage actor when, in 1988, he made his debut as a film director with Henry V; among other films he has directed are Dead Again , Peter's Friends , Much Ado About Nothing , Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , In Bleak Midwinter , Hamlet , and Love's Labour's Lost ; as a performer he has been seen in Conspiracy , Celebrity , and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .