Agatha Christie

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. 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. One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation. Isolated and with a killer...

Four sleuths, including Poirot, are invited to play bridge with four specially invited guests, each of whom had gotten away with murder. The host of the party is dead before the the game is barely started.

Bobby Jones witnesses the last words of a dying man--"Why didn't they ask Evans?"--and begins a death-defying chase. Bobby and his partner in detection, Lady Derwent, end up in pursuit of a beautiful woman and a cunning killer.