Between 60 and 70. Wealthy. Appears to be a philanthropist or businessman. American. Unpleasant impression....
The private secretary to Mr. Ratchett. About 30. American. Agreeable personality....
Mr. Ratchetts valet. English. 39.more...
Poirot first encounters him in Aleppo, Syria on the Taurus Express train to Stamboul. A colonel in the British Army in India - likely in the Punjab....
Mrs. Hubbard is an middle-aged American lady. She can be loud. Has a daughter....
Tall and handsome. Well dressed. Relatively young. Hungarian....
Twenty. Her maiden name was Goldenberg. The Count and she were recently married....
Elderly. Festooned with pearls. Russian but cosmopolitan. Has personality. Lives in Paris....
Poirot first encounters her on the Taurus Express from Syria to Stamboul (Istanbul) with connections onto the Simplon Orient Express. English. About 28. Tall and slim. Coming from Baghdad where she had been a governess....
Princess Dragomiroffs maid. German.more...
A naturalized American. An agent for Ford motor cars....
Yellowish-grey hair. 49. Swedish. A matron and nurse in a missionary school near Stamboul. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award after she played this role....
Conductor of the Wagon Lit carriage. Question: is he in both Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of the Blue Train? He may be - theres a conductor with the same name on both trains. Perhaps its just a common name!more...
A big, flamboyant American. 41. He tells everyone that hes a travelling salesman for typewriter ribbons.more...
Small. He confirms the death by stabbing of Mr. Ratchett. Greek. Travelling on the train on the separate Athens coach along with Bouc....
Belgian. A director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagon Lits (The International Railway Sleeping Car Company). Poirot meets him in Stamboul. Poirot knew him when Poirot was with the Belgian Police Force....
Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...