Editing Orient Express (section)

===Literature===
*''[[Dracula]]'' (1897) by [[Bram Stoker]]: while [[Count Dracula]] escapes from England to [[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]] by sea, the group sworn to destroy him travels to Paris and takes the Orient Express, arriving in Varna ahead of him.
* ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)|Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]'' (1925) by Anita Loos, wherein Lorelei and her friend Dorothy take a journey on the ''Oriental Express'' from Paris to Central Europe.
* ''[[Stamboul Train]]'' (1932) by [[Graham Greene]]
* The short story "[[Parker Pyne Investigates#Have You Got Everything You Want?|Have You Got Everything You Want?]]" (1933), by [[Agatha Christie]]
*''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1934), one of the most famous works by [[Agatha Christie]], takes place on the ''Simplon Orient Express''<ref name="Seat61"/>
*''Oriënt-Express'' (1934) a novel by [[A. den Doolaard]]: it takes place in North Macedonia.
* ''[[From Russia, with Love (novel)|From Russia, with Love]]'' (1957), a ''[[James Bond]]'' novel by [[Ian Fleming]], sees Bond travel from Istanbul to Venice aboard the ''Simplon Orient Express''.
* ''[[Travels with My Aunt]]'' (1969) by Graham Greene
* [[Paul Theroux]] (1975) devotes a chapter of ''[[The Great Railway Bazaar]]'' to his journey from Paris to [[Istanbul]] on the Direct-Orient Express.
* ''[[Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe]]'' (1991) by [[Bill Bryson]] describes riding the train in 1973, when it was a run-down and neglected route. 
* ''The Orient Express'' (1992) a novel by [[Gregor von Rezzori]] follows a European American who, having ridden the original ''Orient Express'' in his youth, returns late in life to ride the refurbished version.
* ''[[Flashman and the Tiger]]'' (1999) by [[George MacDonald Fraser]]: [[Harry Paget Flashman]] travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist [[Henri Blowitz]].
* The ''Orient Express'' appeared in the 2004 novel ''[[Lionboy]]'' and its sequel ''Lionboy: The Case'' by Zizou Corder. Charlie Ashanti was stowing away on the train on his way to Venice when he met King Boris of Bulgaria.
* The short story "On the Orient, North" by [[Ray Bradbury]]
* The ''Orient Express'' appeared as a technologically advanced (for its time) train in the book ''[[Behemoth (Westerfeld novel)|Behemoth]]'', by [[Scott Westerfeld]].
*''Thea Stilton and the Mystery on the Orient Express'' by [[Elisabetta Dami]]
*''Madness on the Orient Express'' is an anthology of horror stories, all connected to the ''Orient Express'', edited by [[James Lowder]].
* ''First Class Murder'' (2015) by [[Robin Stevens (author)|Robin Stevens]] from the ''[[Murder Most Unladylike]]'' series is set on the ''Orient Express''.
*The ''Oriënt-Express'' served as the venue for a chess game described in the (1997) novel [[The Lüneburg Variation]] by [[Paolo Maurensig]].
* One of the criminal mysteries solved by [[Randall Garrett]]'s [[alternative history]] detective [[Lord Darcy (character)|Lord Darcy]] takes place on a luxurious cross-Europe train manifestly modeled on the Orient Express, though in this setting its final destination is [[Naples]] rather than Istanbul.