Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express was a novel written by Agatha Christie. Christie was inadvertently inspired to write the novel by Donna Noble, who met the writer in 1926 and was not aware that it had not been written yet. Although Christie's conscious memories of her adventure with the Tenth Doctor and Donna were lost, the idea remained as a subconscious influence. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

In 2986, Lasky read it in the lounge of the starliner Hyperion III. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids)

The Eleventh Doctor sarcastically pointed out to Janet Rutherford that "Notes on the Autonomous Reasoning Center" was as interesting a title as Murder on the Orient Express. (COMIC: The Sound of Our Voices)

Behind the scenes

• Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published in the UK on 1 January 1934. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates the murder of an American businessman committed on the Calais Coach of the Orient Express. Nearly all the passengers are suspects.
• According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, in an alternate universe where all of history happened at once, Cleopatra read Murder on the Sky Orient Express.