"The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and
watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness
of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned
trucks."nnAs the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on
its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the
driven lives of several of its passengers become bound
together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters
include Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton
Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious
and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the
spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a
cunning, murderous burglar.nnWhat happens to these strangers
as they put on and take off their masks of identity and
passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and
reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the
onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most
exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in
1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success.n
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