Poirot also notices an elderly Russian lady, Princess Dragomiroff, and a boorish American woman, Mrs.

Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot from the previous leg of the journey, as well as the two Americans from the hotel restaurant, the younger Hector Macqueen and the older Mr. Later in the dining car, Poirot takes some time to observe the thirteen other passengers in the train car, who are people of “all classes and nationalities.” These include Ms. Poirot is forced to share a second-class cabin with the young American from the hotel restaurant. Bouc and Poirot find that all the compartments are taken, which is unusual for this time of year. Poirot remarks on the appearance of the older of the two men at first glance, he looks harmless, but a closer look reveals a malevolent quality.īoarding the Orient Express, M. Two Americans, a young man and an older one, are also dining. Bouc, the director of the Wagons-Lit company, which runs the Orient Express. The two seem acquainted from traveling on the same train, and Poirot observes a polite conversation between them that’s peppered with ominous references to a time in the future “When it’s all over.”Īt the hotel in Istanbul, Poirot gets a telegram requesting him in London, so he arranges travel by the Orient Express and in the meantime finds dinner at the hotel restaurant. In the train car are two other passengers: Colonel Arbuthnot, a British officer stationed in India, and Mary Debenham, a young English governess. At a train platform in Aleppo, Syria, a detective named Hercule Poirot boards a train to Istanbul.

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