On the Orient Express

A daring act of narrative modification and reinterpretation. By altering an event early in Christie's novel - there is no murder - the remaining text must re-adjust to accommodate the absence of the crime. On the Orient Express parodies and subverts the expectations of casual slaughter in the literary genre of detective fiction, and the result is a transformation of the original novel into something entirely different: an expression of redemption rather than of revenge.