As the train travels across Europe, they form a bond that will sustain them through the challenges that lie ahead. Due to some very dramatic circumstances and revelations, the three become fast friends. All three of them are at crossroads in their lives and are keeping major secrets. The action and intrigue begin when Agatha meets two other women on the train. But a dinner-party conversation about Baghdad changed her mind, and just two days before her departure date, she canceled the beach and booked herself aboard the Venice-Simplon-Orient Express.įrom this truth, author Lindsay Jayne Ashford weaves Christie’s real-life events and friends into a speculative story about what was happening in their hearts and minds aboard the luxury train. Reeling from that betrayal and needing a break from the London scene (and publicity), Agatha planned a Caribbean trip. By April of 1928, the couple was divorced, and in October of that year, Archie married his mistress. In real life, in 1926, Agatha Christie’s husband Archie admitted he was in love with another woman. You’re surely aware that Agatha Christie wrote the mystery classic Murder on the Orient Express, but did you know she had her own real-life adventure aboard the legendary train? This is the fictionalized story of Dame Agatha’s epic journey from London to Baghdad in 1928.
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