Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel by Agatha Christie, adapted and illustrated by Bob Al-Greene (Bibliolifestyle Book Tour)

 

Thank you, Partner @bibliolifestyle @williammorrowbooks for the review copy of Murder on the Orient Express:  The Graphic Novel by Agatha Christie, adapted and illustrated by Bob Al-Greene.

The overall theme for #ReadChristie2023 is Methods and Motives.  Murder on the Orient Express was my read for October with the method of stabbing. I had read the novel previously and thought it would be fun to read the new graphic novel. 

Hercule Poirot is taking the Orient Express to travel back to Europe.  Unfortunately, the train is stopped by a snowdrift on the journey and a passenger is found stabbed to death in the morning.  Hercule Poirot is on the case interviewing the passengers on the train to determine who killed Samuel Rachett and why. 

Bob Al-Green did a wonderful job creating a graphic novel out of this story.  I really liked the artistic choices he made such as graying out scenes that were memories.  He also used graphics to illustrate who the passengers were and what rooms they were staying in on the train. It really helped me to visualize what was going on in the story.

My thirteen-year-old daughter Penelope saw me reading this in October and asked to borrow it afterwards as she thought it looked interesting.  I think making Agatha Christie’s classic novels into graphic novels is a great way to get teens interested in her works.

I highly recommend this graphic novel to fans of Agatha Christie and to mystery fans.