Every now and then I like to read one of Poirot's adventures. Recently I read the Murder on the Orient Express. The story revolves around a group of people on the Orient Express travelling from Istanbul to London. While the train is forced to stop because of a winter storm, a murder is committed and Poirot is commissioned to solve the crime. There were couple of things in this story that I found interesting.
First it was the fact that the story starts in Aleppo. This city is one of the oldest cities in the world that has been inhibited continuously. At the time that I started reading the book Aleppo and Syria were on the news everyday. It is sad to see what is happening in Syria and I hope for the violence to stop soon and people of Syria live in peace again.
Second interesting thing for me about this book was that the story is happening in the Orient Express passenger train. This train is mentioned in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Ian Fleming's James Bond from Russia with Love.
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