Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express includes which famous Belgian detective?
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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express is a 2006 adventure game developed by AWE Productions and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows. It is the second installment in The Adventure Company's "Agatha Christie series". The setting is five years before the events in "", with a largely unrelated storyline. The plot follows an amateur sleuth, Antoinette Marceau, and her investigation of a murder with twelve possible suspects aboard the Orient Express, which has been blocked by an avalanche in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during 1934. She is aided by famous detective Hercule Poirot.
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Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot ( ; ] ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play ("Black Coffee"), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
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J.J. Tholen Inspector J.J. Tholen is a fictional police detective of the 1950s Amsterdam Police, appearing in Winston Graham's thriller "The Little Walls" where he is in charge of investigating the mysterious death of the main protagonist's brother.
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Crime Is Our Business Crime Is Our Business (French: Le Crime est notre affaire ) is a 2008 French comedy mystery film directed by Pascal Thomas and starring Catherine Frot, André Dussollier and Claude Rich. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel "4.50 from Paddington" (but with a change of detectives from Miss Marple to Tommy and Tuppence).
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Murder One (bookshop) Murder One was from 1988 to 2009 a well known bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, "catering to readers interested in hard-to-find and collectable crime, mystery, romance and science fiction literature". It was the first UK bookshop to specialize in the crime and mystery genres, and at its opening in 1988 the largest specialist “genre” bookshop in Europe. It was owned by the novelist Maxim Jakubowski.
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Détective (1985 film) Détective is a 1985 French crime film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
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Harold Smith (detective) Harold Smith (1926 – February 19, 2005) was a noted investigator and detective.
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The Unicorn Murders The Unicorn Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery (more precisely, it is a subset of that group, an impossible mystery) and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Drury Lane (character) Drury Lane is a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen in the 1930s under the byline of Barnaby Ross. He is a retired Shakespearian actor who lives in a lavish castle on the Hudson River. His backstory involves leaving the theatre because he lost his sense of hearing, and the novels occasionally mention his lip-reading. He appeared in four mystery novels: "The Tragedy of X", "The Tragedy of Y", "The Tragedy of Z", and "Drury Lane's Last Case". These books were later reissued under the Ellery Queen byline.
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The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection, "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes".
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Joan Hickson Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was particularly known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series "Miss Marple". As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of "Miss Marple" stories on audio books.
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Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (] ; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English.
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Dead Man's Folly Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1956 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 November of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.95 and the UK edition at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6). It features Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver.
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W. J. Burley William John Burley (1 August 1914 – 15 November 2002) was a British crime writer, best known for his books featuring the detective Charles Wycliffe, who became the basis of the popular "Wycliffe" television series throughout the mid 1990s.
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Thierry Martens Thierry Martens (29 January 1942 – 27 June 2011) was a Belgian author who wrote under the pen name Yves Varende, writer of science fiction and detective novels, short stories and comics. Between 1968 and 1978, he was editor of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine "Spirou". He published several highly-documented anthologies and studies about popular "Holmesian-style" French-language crime novels of the early twentieth century. He also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in French as well as super-science novels
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Jacqueline Bisset Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset ( ; born 13 September 1944) is an English actress. She began her film career in 1965 and first came to prominence in 1968 with roles in "The Detective", "Bullitt", and "The Sweet Ride", for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination. In the 1970s, she starred in "Airport" (1970), "Day for Night" (1973) which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), "The Deep" (1977), and "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" (1978), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy.
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Eric Boschman Eric Boschman (born 25 August 1964) is a Belgian sommelier. He has been awarded many prizes, including the title of "Best Sommelier in Belgium" in 1988. He is a respected expert on wine from Belgium, and shares his passion through various media (newspapers and magazines, radio and television) and by organizing events.
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the "Crimes Circle", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and also applies different methods of detection (basically deductive or inductive or a combination of both). Completely devoid of brutality but containing a lot of subtle, tongue-in-cheek humour instead, "The Poisoned Chocolates Case" is one of the classic whodunnits of the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction. As at least six plausible explanations of what really happened are put forward one after the other, the reader—just like the members of the Crimes Circle themselves—is kept guessing right up to the final pages of the book.
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Jean-Baptiste Sipido Jean-Baptiste Victor Sipido (20 December 1884 – 20 August 1959) was a Belgian anarchist who became known when he, then a young tinsmith's apprentice, attempted to assassinate the Prince of Wales at the Brussel-Noord railway station in Brussels on April 5, 1900.
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A Battle of Nerves A Battle of Nerves (French: "La Tête d'un homme", also known as "A Man's Head") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year.
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Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery is a 1908 American silent film directed by an unknown director. The film was released on 27 November 1908 and is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), which is considered the first detective story, though the plot was altered to include Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes instead of Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. Dr. Watson makes his film debut here, though the actors playing Holmes and Watson are unknown, as the rest of the cast. It is considered a lost film.
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A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."