THE Murder on the Orient Express films presents one of Agatha Christie's most beloved and classic police officers. Hercule Poirot, “little gray cells” and all, travels from Istanbul to Calais on the exotic Orient Express. After the train gets stuck in a snowdrift, an unpleasant American named Edward Ratchett is murdered and stabbed 12 times. Agatha Christie got the idea from the Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, when the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and murdered (via AgathaChristie. with). Hercule Poirot is on the case and begins to investigate the murder. Sure, it eventually resolves, but what happens…