Editing Murder on the Orient Express (section)

==Publication history==
* 1934, Collins Crime Club (London), 1 January 1934, Hardcover, 256 pp.
* 1934, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1934, Hardcover, 302 pp.
* c.1934, Lawrence E. Spivak, Abridged edition, 126 pp.
* 1940, [[Pocket Books]] (New York), Paperback, (Pocket number 79), 246 pp.
* 1948, [[Penguin Books]], Paperback, (Penguin number 689), 222 pp.
* 1957, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. (Garden City, N.Y.) published as part of “A Treasury of Great Mysteries”, 576 pp. with the title of “Murder in the Calais Car” 137 pp.
* 1959, Fontana Books (Imprint of [[HarperCollins|Collins]]), Paperback, 192 pp.
* 1965, Ulverscroft [[Large-print]] Edition, Hardcover, 253 pp. {{ISBN|0-7089-0188-3}}
* 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover, 254 pp.
* 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 254 pp.
* 1974, Pocket Books (New York) (with cover illustration of the cast of Sidney Lumet's movie by Allan Mardon [misspelled "Marden"]) November 1974, 34th printing, Paperback, viii, 198 p.
* 1978, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback
* 2006, Poirot Facsimile Edition (Facsimile of 1934 UK first edition), 4 September 2006, Hardcover, 256 pp. {{ISBN|0-00-723440-6}}
* 2011, William Morrow ([[HarperCollins]]), Paperback, 265 pp.

The story's first true publication was the US serialisation in six instalments in the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'' from 30 September to 4 November 1933 (Volume 206, Numbers 14 to 19). The title was ''Murder in the Calais Coach'', and it was illustrated by William C. Hoople.<ref name="ebsco">{{Cite web |title=Murder in the Calais Coach |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/short-stories/18172050/murder-calais-coach |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193744/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/short-stories/18172050/murder-calais-coach |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 January 2014 |access-date=23 November 2012 |publisher=[[EBSCOhost]]}}</ref>

The UK serialisation appeared after book publication, appearing in three instalments in the ''[[Grand Magazine]]'', in March, April, and May 1934 (Issues 349 to 351). This version was abridged from the book version (losing some 25% of the text), was without chapter divisions, and named the Russian princess as Dragiloff instead of Dragomiroff. Advertisements in the back pages of the UK first editions of ''[[The Listerdale Mystery]]'', ''[[Why Didn't They Ask Evans]]'', and ''[[Parker Pyne Investigates]]'' claimed that ''Murder on the Orient Express'' had proven to be Christie's best-selling book to date and the best-selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series.