Murder on the Orient Express: A Mystery- Detective Novel by Agatha Christie with a Semiotic Eye

Abstract

Detective stories are one of the thrilling branches of Mystery fiction. This branch remains incomplete without suspense and mystery. The crime has occurred, and the clues remain in semiotic signs; it is shrouded in mystery. Thriller is the heart of the mystery, which is discovered by suspense and semiotic signs.  Hence, it is essential to recognise that mystery and semiotics intersect, and both the author and the reader share the thrill of this journey. Here, researchers analyse the in-depth mystery genre in Agatha Christie's selected novels through semiotic analysis, examining the secret clues within signs, codes, and icons. Christie has achieved a great position as a crime writer. The detective stories and Agatha Christie were a tremendously successful pair in the twentieth century. Semiotics is broadly used as an interdisciplinary study that encompasses all manner of communication. Literary semiotics has been a field of research that has explored various aspects of Linguistics. Semiotics is the study of signs, encompassing the analysis of signs, symbols, and icons. It is a study of signs and the behaviour used. Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist, demarcated it. Semiotics is one of the finest analyses of the literary work, Murder on the Orient Express. This is an excellent novel with a plethora of signs and symbols, which prompts readers to decode it; a semiotic study makes this task easier.