The Case of the Body on the Orient Express

 The Case of the Body on the Orient Express

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       July 16, 2025

 

Author  Kelly Oliver

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1836175568
Publisher:         Boldwood Pubishers
Release Date:   14 July 2025  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.com/Case-Body-Orient-Express/dp/1836175566

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Have you ever wondered about the real story behind the famous Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie released in 1934 featuring the now famous Hercule Poirot.

The Case of the Body on the Orient Express could be the answer to this time old mystery as Agatha Christie, still barely coping after her recent divorce, agrees to join her friend and fellow Crime writer Dorothy L Sayer at the International Writers Convention in Constantinople.

Eliza Baker is Secretary to Dorothy Sayers, a position she has held for two years, after she left her position with Scotland Yard. When her sister Jane arrives with a very impressive blue and gold envelope containing her ticket on the Orient Express, she realises Dorothy was serious about her attendance.

And so begins another riveting adventure with the new heroine of sleuth in Eliza Baker, a young woman with a very shady past, a career with Scotland Yard as a Detective cur short in tragic circumstance, a sister who works for a clandestine  Government department and a somewhat broken heart due to Theo Sharpe, a man to whom she gave her heart, who then ran away to Paris.

When a body, a friend of both Dorothy and Agatha’s is discovered on the Orient Express Eliza begins to investigate what happened as best she can with the help of Theo, who she has discovered is working on the train as a Steward.

A second death occurs before the train reaches Constantinople making things murkier than they were already and the so-called script written by Peachy, a long-time friend of Dorothy, is at the centre of what and why people are being murdered.

Once they get to Constantinople, and Jane is there in her capacity with the Government, Eliza and Theo begin to understand that there is a far deeper and murkier layer to this than even they understood which places  not just Eliza and Theo in grave danger but everyone who has ever had anything to do with Peachy at risk.

The Case of the Body on the Orient Express is a fast paced, complex and a thoroughly enjoyable cozy murder that just might answer a few questions as to where crime writers get their stories. Look out for the obnoxious Orson Wells as well as he plays a small but persistent part in trying to sleaze his way into Eliza’s bed!

Crime, Fiction, General