![]() The ransom was paid, but unfortunately Lindbergh’s son was never returned. ![]() The story was partly inspired by the Lindbergh case a shocking real-life case following the kidnapping of international hero, Charles Lindbergh’s, 20-month old son who was held for a $50,000 ransom. It’s likely that the story was drafted when Christie was on an archaeological dig with Max in Arpachiyah, Iraq, although The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul has an Agatha Christie Room where, it claims, she wrote Murder on the Orient Express. Arpachiyah, 1933” – Agatha Christie’s second husband, Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. The very first publication of the story was in a six-instalment serialisation in the Saturday Evening Post in 1933 in the US, under the title, Murder on the Calais Coach. ![]() ![]() Regarded as one of Agatha Christie’s greatest achievements, Murder on the Orient Express was first published as a novel in 1934. ![]()
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