Hercule Poirot I knew Death on the Nile was the sequel for The Murder on the Orient Express without reading the books. Hercule Poirot was the character that tied them together. His deductive search for the truth reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. Alas, Holmes did come first in literature by about 23 years. Holmes being English and Poirot being French. Like Holmes though, Poirot has several novels and short stories about his adventures. The new movies with Kenneth Branagh as Hercule are some of the more popular novels. I say new movies as The Murder on the Orient Express was a movie back in the 1970s. It also was followed by Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, and Appointment with Death. One wonders if they will remake all of these for the series. Review While this was a good mystery movie, I did feel the focused on the clues a little more than the first movie taking a little of the mystery out of it. The cast was great and the cinematography was amazing. I very much enjoyed this f...