Eight suspects, one thrilling ride! Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the luxurious Orient Express dead in its tracks. By morning, an American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer before the storm clears and the killer strikes again. Ken Ludwig's adaptation infuses Agatha Christie's classic whodunit with high-energy glamour, mounting suspense, and a healthy dose of humor.

Financially-strapped Francis Henshall has taken on the job of servant to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End London hood, who is trying collect £6,000 from his fiancée's father. However, it turns out that "Roscoe" is really his twin sister Rachel … who has been posing as her own dead brother … who has been killed by her own boyfriend, Stanley Stubbers … for whom Francis also works.

Still with us? The hilarity never stops in this award-winning slapstick farce in its knockabout quest to answer the age-old question: how can any man (especially Francis) serve two masters, without either of them finding out about the other; pursue and win the girl he fancies; and somehow get a decent meal in the process?