Mysterious Disappearance. In , Agatha Christie disappeared for eleven days, spurring a media sensation and a manhunt that even involved fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle. She was found alive and well at a hotel and spa in Harrogate. Today, biographers attribute the disappearance to an emotional crisis following the death of her mother. Collecting Clues. While working at the University College Hospital pharmacy, Christie collected information on poisons that later appeared in her novels.
For example, she learned about thallium from the chief pharmacist there and employed it in her novel The Pale Horse.
Murder on the Orient Express. Plot Summary. All Characters Hercule Poirot M. Bouc Mr. Constantine Daisy Armstrong. All Symbols Scarlet Kimono. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts.
So step out of the room and go further down the corridor. Step further into the room and check the shoe-closet in the upper-left portion of the screen. Bring out the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast from your inventory and click on the pair of shoes inside the closet, to see if the shoes match the footprint-cast; but Poirot's voice tells you that there is no match.
So step out of this room and enter Athens Room 14 Vacant. Check out the shoe-closet at the bottom of the screen left of the bedside table , to find it empty.
Step further into the room and talk to the doctor, only to retrieve his fingerprints. Check out the shoe-closet in the upper-left portion of your screen and use the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast on the shoes in the closet, only to hear Poirot tell us that the cast does not match these shoes either. Return to the corridor and enter Athens Room 12 Vacant. Return to the corridor and go left.
Enter Athens Room 11 Michel. A brief cutscene will follow in which the heroine will retrieve a Small Key from Hardman. Talk to him, exhausting all topics, starting from the top line in the dialog box. Check Michel's suitcase up on the luggage-carrier on your left.
Click inside, to retrieve Michel's passport and a Family Photograph. Examine the photograph using the two-step method described at the beginning of this walkthrough. Step out of the close up and check out the shoe-closet in the upper-left portion of your screen. Apply the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast to the shoes in the closet, to hear Poirot tell us that the cast does not match these shoes. Return to the corridor and enter Athens Room 10 Engineer.
Step further into the room and check out the shoe-closet in the upper-right portion of your screen. Use the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast on the shoes in the closet, to hear Poirot tell us that the cast does not match these shoes either. So return to the corridor and enter Athens Room 9 Klaus. Step further into the room and check out the shoe-closet in the upper-left portion of your screen.
Apply the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast to the shoes in the closet, to learn that there is no match. Step out of the room and go further down the corridor.
Enter Athens Room Vacant. Check out the shoe-closet immediately right of the entrance, to find it empty. Step further in the room and close up on the bedside table. The heroine will announce that she has obtained and filed a fingerprint.
Step out of this close up and into the one on the two brass handles in the wall on your left. Once again, the heroine will announce that she has obtained and filed a fingerprint. You will now find the fingerprints from both the "flower vase" and the "handle" in the Fingerprint section of the inventory.
Return to the corridor and enter Athens Room Vacant. Check out the shoe-closet immediately left of the entrance, to find it empty. Step out into the corridor and enter Athens Room Fireman. Check the shoe-closet immediately right of the entrance.
Return to the corridor and enter Athens Room Lucien. Check out the shoe-closet immediately left of the entrance. Step out of the room and go down the corridor. Feel free to check out the bathroom on your right, but there is nothing of interest there. So return to the corridor and enter the Calais Coach. Talk to Michel, exhausting all topics, starting from the top line of the dialog box.
Go down the corridor and enter Calais Room 16 Hardman. This passport identifies Hardman as a salesman. Close up on the bedside table and then, close up again under the top edge of the table. Pick up another passport, which identifies Hardman as a P. Pick up Hardman's credentials and examine the card using the two-part method described at the beginning of this walkthrough. Finally, pick up the taped white packet in the front.
The heroine informs us that she will put it in her scrapbook and examine it later. Open the scrapbook and check Ratchett's Letter in the Documents section. Step out of the close ups and check out the shoe-closet on the heroine's right.
Enter Calais Room 15 Arbuthnot. Check the suitcase up on the carrier right of the heroine. Click inside, to retrieve a Packet of Pipe Cleaners and hear Poirot's comment. Conduct the two-part examination of the packet.
Step out of the close up and move further into the room. Talk to the colonel and exhaust all topics, starting with the top line of the dialog box. As he leaves the room, check out the shoe-closet on your left. Once again, use the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast on the pair of shoes inside the closet, to learn that there is no match. Return to the corridor and enter Calais Room 14 Princess Dragomiroff. Step further in the room and pick up the passport and the Copper Bracelet.
As soon as you pick the bracelet, the heroine will step back and Princess Dragomiroff will walk in. Talk to her, exhausting all topics as usual. Then, conduct the two-part examination of the bracelet. Note : Since it was obvious that the footprint found outside Ratchett's window was made by a man's shoes, we do not need to check any of the ladies' shoes.
Return to the corridor and enter Calais Room 13 Count Andrenyi. Check out the suitcase up on the carrier on your right and click, to find nothing of interest there. Step further into the room and check out the shoe-closet on your left. Use the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast on the shoes inside the closet, to hear Poirot tell us that there is no match.
Step outside the room and enter Calais Room 12 Countess Andrenyi. Check out the suitcase up on the carrier on your left and click inside, to find nothing of interest there. But click on the Eye icon on the label in the top-center of the suitcase, to find the initials "H.
Feel free to step further into the room but there is nothing of interest there. As noted earlier, there is no need to check the ladies' shoes. So return to the corridor and go left. Calais Room 11 Hubbard. Step further into the room and talk to Mrs.
Hubbard, exhausting all topics starting with the top line in the box. As she leaves, step back to the front of the room and close up on the doorknob to the heroine's right. Since we don't need to check any of the ladies' shoes, you can leave the room now. Enter Calais Room 10 Ratchett , step forward and check out the shoe-closet on your right, but it's empty. Close up on the window and click on the Eye icon appearing just above the silver handle. Step out of the room and enter Calais Room 9 Poirot.
Step forward and check out the shoe-closet on your left, but it is also empty. So leave the room and go further down the corridor. Step forward and talk to Miss Ohlsson, exhausting all topics. Check out the suitcases up on the carrier on your left. Close up on Ohlsson's suitcase and click inside, to retrieve a Postcard and hear Poirot say, "Regardez, Mademoiselle! Then, check out the heroine's suitcase, but she will say that she doesn't need anything from it.
So step out of the close up and return to the corridor. Step forward and pick up Debenham's passport from the bedside table. Talk to Miss Schmidt, exhausting all topics starting with the top line in the dialog box. Step out of the room and enter Calais Room MacQueen. Step forward and talk to MacQueen, exhausting all topics.
Check out the suitcase up on the carrier on your left, but there is nothing of interest there. Step back to the front of the room. Close up on the brief case on your left and click, to hear the heroine say that she has retrieved something that she will put in her scrapbook. Open the scrapbook and read the "Threatening Letter" and the "Second Threatening Letter," one by one, in the Documents section of the scrapbook.
Check out the shoe-closet on the right of the entrance and use the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast on the shoes inside the closet, to hear Poirot tell you that there is no match.
Move further into the room and talk to Masterman, exhausting all topics. Check out the suitcases up on the carrier on your right. Click inside, to retrieve a Chauffeur's License and hear Poirot say "Et voila! Conduct a two-part examination of both the book and the license just retrieved from the two suitcases. Step back to the front of the room and check out the shoe-closet left of the entrance.
Use the Ice Bucket with Footprint Cast on the two pairs of shoes inside the closet. The pair at the bottom does not match the cast, but the one at the top does. Be sure to check both pairs of shoes, however; otherwise, you will not be able to report to Poirot later that you have checked all the men's shoes and get points for having done so.
Feel free to check out the bathroom on your right, to find it locked. Step forward and close up on the colonel, on your left. Try to talk to him, but he has nothing else to say. So step out of that close up and into the one on Foscarelli, on your right.
Talk to him, exhausting all topics. Step out of the close up, take two steps further into the car and talk to Lucien the waiter on your left, exhausting all topics. Step out of the close up, take another step forward and try to speak with Mrs. Hubbard, on your right. But she has nothing else to say. So close up on the Count and the Countess, in the lower-right portion of the screen. Speak to them, one by one, exhausting all topics.
Step out of the close up, move forward and close up on Miss Debenham, on your left. Speak to her, exhausting all topics. There is no one in the Restaurant Car, so go to the Baggage Car. Step forward and close up on the crate sitting on top of the large one filled with green vegetables to the right of the window on your left.
Step out of this close up and into the one on the reddish, square crate sitting diagonally in the lower-left portion of the screen. Close up on the white label in the lower side of that crate and apply the Turkey Baster Filled With Coal Dust , and then the Sellotape , to obtain a fingerprint [listed as "Small Crate" in the Fingerprint section of the inventory].
Step out of the close up, move forward and click on Klaus the chef to obtain his fingerprint. You will not get anything else out of him. Step forward. Try to open the door behind the heroine, to learn that it is a security door and that it is locked. Close up on the door-handle and click on the Eye icon to hear Poirot say, "Quite interesting.
Enter the Security Room. Close up on the large crate at the bottom of the screen. Use the Iron Bar to open the lid. Pick up the Attendant's Uniform lying on the mattress on your left. Examine it using the two-part process described at the beginning of this walkthrough.
Feel free to click on the mattress, to hear the heroine's comment about the "makeshift bed. The heroine will read the titles of the books. As she finishes, click on the Eye icon to hear Poirot say, "Quite interesting. Step out of this close up and into the one on the latch at the top-center of the crate.
Click on the Eye icon appearing on the latch, to hear Poirot say, "Quite interesting. Step out of the close up and click on the stool with a lamp and dishes on it behind the books, to hear the heroine's comment. Step out of the close up on the crate. The heroine will replace the lid automatically. Close up on the safe in the back of the room. The clue to the combination was inside the Hat that you had found in Ratchett's room after the murder: "Rev.
We have already copied the relevant text from Greta's Bible [listed as the "Bible Passage" in the Documents section of the scrapbook]. Note the "number of the beast" at the bottom of that page: "Six hundred threescore [and] six. Note the white knob in the center of the dial in the upper-left portion of the safe. If you click to the left of this knob, the dial will rotate anti-clockwise. If you click to the right of the knob, the dial will rotate clockwise. Keeping this in mind, proceed as follows.
The heroine will exclaim, "I think I heard a click! Pick up the document inside, to hear the heroine say that she will put it in the scrapbook so that she can examine it later.
Open the scrapbook and read Ratchett's Confession in the Documents section. Step out of the close up and go to the Calais Coach.
Enter Ratchett's Room 10 and step outside the window. Go right along the train. You will find the Fireman standing in front of the gray car behind the train's engine. Click on him to take his fingerprints. Enter the back of the engine and talk to the engineer, exhausting all topics. Step outside and go left along the train. Use Ratchett's window to re-enter the train. Open your scrapbook and click on Suspects in the Documents section, to find that you are still missing Lucien's passport.
Recall that we couldn't find it when we checked his room. But when we spoke to him, he told us to get it from his room. That is when the passport appears. So go to the Athens-Paris Coach, enter Lucien's room , and pick up his passport from the bedside table.
You should now have the fingerprints and passports of all the suspects. We must now try to determine the identity of the person s whose fingerprints we found on various objects. So open the Fingerprints section of the inventory. The fingerprints of the Suspects are at the top of the screen, and those found on objects are at the bottom. There is a magnifying-glass icon in a box in the center of the screen. In order to compare the fingerprint of a suspect with that found on an object, scroll through the top row to bring the name of that suspect above the box with the magnifying-glass icon.
Scroll through the bottom row, then, to bring the name of the object below that box. Then, click on the magnifying-glass icon in the box to see if we have a match.
You should get the following results from the comparison:. Thick Tumbler Masterman. Broken Snowshoes Colonel Arbuthnot. Padlock Matteo. Stiletto No Match. Flower Vase Debenham. Handle Colonel Arbuthnot. Doorknob Ohlsson. Window Sill Foscarelli. Empty Crate Foscarelli. Small Crate Foscarelli. Security Room Michel. Books No Match. Ratchett's Crate MacQueen. This can be tedious, I know, but it is the only way to let the computer "know" that we did not get a single match for that object, and to proceed further in the game.
Return to Calais Coach and enter Poirot's Room 9. Talk to him. Once again, be sure to click on the left mouse button as the heroine reports to him, or else that "muffled" cutscene can go on indefinitely.
At the end of the conversation, Poirot will say, "And so, we advance in our investigations! Once again, we find the heroine standing outside Poirot's room. Save your game , enter Calais Room 10 Ratchett , and exit the train through the window. Step out of the close up and move forward in the hut. Open the window and click on the Eye icon there to look outside. Use the Elegant Parasol on the padlock on the door. Move back to the other side of the hut and step outside.
Pick up the Broken Padlock from the ground in front of the door. Click on the brown chest on your right, to retrieve your belongings and hear Poirot's comment. We must return to the train, but the blizzard makes it difficult to see very clearly. Don't worry about that. Just follow the same directions you took the first time you had returned to the train from the hut. Thus, step to your left and then, to your right.
Step to your left and then, click on the footprints-icon in the lower-right portion of the screen to arrive in the area where you had seen the deer in the distance, although that deer is gone now. Step into the Athens-Paris Coach. If you check M. Poirot's Instructions in your scrapbook, you will find that one of them tells you to use the ham radio to get more information about the suspects.
We must fix the radio, however, before we can use it. So go to and enter Athens Room 16 Vacant. Step forward and close up on the radio. Bring out the Punch Bowl from your inventory and place it on your right. Next, combine the Copper Bracelet and the Pliers in the Gears section, and place the resulting Bent Copper Bracelet in the bowl as well.
With most adventure games, keep a notepad handy. The clues start stacking up and it's easier if you write them all down. I cannot stress this enough. Keep this in mind if you ever get stuck. They order the residents to come out, and when they don't, unleash a string of bullets.
The 2 men finally surrender once the gunfire ends. Istanbul, Turkey Antoinette is reading a document showing the detective Hercule Poirot. She is ordered by her boss, Marcel Bouc, to follow Poirot as closely as possible, making sure his needs are met. You're job is to catch up to him, but 2 men are blocking the path. Click on the chef to speak to him and he'll ask you which cleaver is the better one. Pick the one in his left hand, and they'll let you proceed. As you move along, keep clicking on Poirot and he'll keep moving away from you.
Talk to them and they'll involve you in a debate about which type of ceramic is better than the other: Kutahaya or Iznik. In order to settle the dispute, you'll need to go back a few screens until you reach the pottery vendor.
Grab one of the bowls and show it to the 2 men. They'll move to the side, and before you go on to the next screen, grab a bag of grain from the stack on your left. Poirot will once again walk away from you, leaving you with 2 older ladies. One of them has lost her parasol. Go back a few screens until you find the feeding goats.
Go to your inventory, click on the grain, and then put your mouse over the goat until you see the icon that looks like a gear. Click and the goat will move to eat the grain. The parasol is behind him so grab it and return to the women. Continue along until you bump into a larger woman named Greta Ohlsson.
She's lost and wants you to help her get to the train. Instruct that she can follow you and move along until you hit the 2 men that are now blocking your way. Don't ask me why Antoinette can't just use the giant sidewalk and avoid these needy people, but oh well. The 2 men will be talking about some statue and the older man won't let you pass until he makes some rude comments.
Once he does, click on the doors to enter the station. Move all the way to the left the character's right and you'll bump into Poirot.
Follow him and you'll listen in on a conversation before making your way to the ticket taker. He'll take your ticket, but you'll leave Greta behind. Walk up to the train attendant who's standing with Poirot. Apparently there are no more rooms available on the train so you're going to have to talk back and forth from the train attendant to Poirot until you agree that Poirot will have your room and you will share one with Greta.
You'll be able to talk to Poirot for a bit about each passenger. Once the dialogue is over, the chef will walk past you in a hallway complaining that he has no bacon. Keep this in mind as you exit the train at Belgrade.
Walking to your left you'll see a shadowed man boarding the train. Walking even further, speak to the Colonel and MacQueen. Speak to them briefly then continue to your right. A woman will get up and walk away. If you click to where she was, you'll conclude that she was seeing off the man who just boarded the train.
Continue along and speak to the 2 men here. They'll tell you that the weather's grim but no match for the train. There will be a cart of boxes behind you. Walk over to them and click on them to see that they are from Serbia. Go back and speak with the train attendant so that he can translate for you. Take him to the same cart and have him translate each box until you find Chef Klaus' bacon.
You are now back on the train. Greta leaves to use the toilet and you're left in the hall. Walk to your left until you reach the Salon Car. You're going to want to get some equipment to listen in on the passengers, and this is where you get it. Walk to the back of the bar and grab everything you can which includes: 5 glasses and ice tongs. Open the drawer and grab the tape and napkins.
Walk out of the salon car and back into the Calais Coach. Take a glass from your inventory and put it against each door to listen in. Some rooms will be completely quiet. When you reach the last room, Michel will ask you what you're doing and believes your story about checking the rooms to make sure they are soundproof.
As he walks through the hall, click on the icon that pops up. This allows you to follow him to the Restaurant Car. He'll find you following him, so go back to your cabin when he does. Greta's back and the both of you decide to get some sleep. The cut scene shows that a large clump of snow fell upon the tracks, causing the train to stop abruptly.
The passengers are startled, Mrs. Hubbard threatens to sue, and Poirot is left with a sprained ankle. As the scene ends, we hear a scream coming from one of the cabins. You tell Greta that it's probably no big deal and you'll investigate it yourself.
Go to the door and click on the eye icon to peep through the keyhole. Michel walks over to Ratchett's room, where the scream apparently came from. He's now fine, but then you'll have to peep in the keyhole again when Mrs. Hubbard begins to complain that there was a man in her room. Peep again when you here the loud crash. You'll walk out into the hall where Michel will be asleep or reading. But a woman dressed in a red kimono walks towards the Salon Car.
Click on the door to the Salon Car to see that it's locked. Walk to Michel and ask him about the woman in the scarlet kimono. He'll tell you that she seemed to come from one of the middle cabins Ratchett or Hubbard's.
He won't know much about anything else. The Murder The cut scene shows that the passengers are becoming restless and irritated because of the delay. Michel comes to your dining table to tell you that Poirot wants a word. He informs you that there has been a murder! Ratchett in fact, but Poirot is too injured to solve the crime himself so he needs your help with the legwork, which you agree to with excitement. Compartment 5 — 6 Vacant — no need to search this one but in the connecting washroom between 3 — 4 and 5 — 6 there is a pair of pliers in the cupboard under the sink — take them.
Compartment 9 — Klaus — chef for the Express — take his passport. Compartment 10 — Sensoy — engineer for the Express — take his passport. Compartment 11 — Michel — the door is locked. Compartment 12 — Vacant — but there are torn up scraps of paper on the floor — you must put them together to read the note — a very easy puzzle.
Compartment 13 — Constantine — look closely at the coat hanging on the hook size Petite , take his passport and the announcement of the speech he is supposed to give Chlamydia-Induced Enteritis sounds nasty, but what is it?
Compartment 14 — Vacant — but there is a pair of snowshoes that someone has rendered useless and attempted to hide — take them and look closely at them — is that a fingerprint? Compartment 16 — Vacant — but there's a radio sitting on the table although it is useless because there is no power and no means of sending a message.
Fixing the Broken Steam Pipe Now it is time to go out and see what's needed to fix that broken pipe. Leave through the rear door of the Athens — Paris Coach and go toward the front of the train. As you near the engine there is steam coming out from under one of the cars Look closely at that area and you will see that you need a section of pipe to repair the break.
Where to find it? Continue up to the engine and speak to the engineer. He appears to be in serious pain — has he been poisoned? He takes them, exclaims that they fit better than the ones that the dentist made for him and he is in your debt. You have only to ask for whatever you want. First, take a lump of coal from the pile behind him, then click on his hammer and you will ask him if he will let you use it. He would do it gladly, but he must have the hammer to check the boiler pressure.
If you are to take his hammer, he must have something to replace it. There is still more that is needed, but you will need to go back in and get the passkeys from Michel. He will give you a key to the Baggage Car and the Pass Key that opens all the compartment doors and the doors between the coaches this is the last time that anyone will speak to you of anything other than getting the pipe fixed.
The Baggage Car Go to the Restaurant Car and make your way to the other end — use the key that Michel gave you to unlock the door. Once you get into the Baggage Car look around. Inside is a pair of snowshoes. They are bound with copper wire and must be put in the right side of the Gear Button window and click the Gear Button in the middle. You get a pair of snowshoes that can now be used and a length of copper wire that will be put to use later.
Now it is time for a walk in the woods to see if you can find that piece of pipe you will need. There are two spouts that are needed — they are stuck in trees and once you get them, you can turn around because those paths are dead ends.
You will have to point it at the animals to activate its use, but as Poirot points out, you are the intruder here and there is no need to harm them. You will fire into the air to frighten them away. After you get by the wolf between you and the hut there will be a place where the Eye Cursor indicates that there is something you need to look closer at — something that has been tossed into the snow.
This is the ledge indicated on the map above. As you move closer to the ledge there appears to be an indentation in the snow. Pass the cursor over that spot and it becomes the Hand Cursor — click and go into a cut-scene. She will reach for whatever it is that has caused the indentation and nearly go over the edge, but she retrieves a steak knife with the train logo imprinted on it a close look reveals no blood and no fingerprints.
Look at the bars across the window — one is loose and again the hammer comes in handy to pull it off then use the bar to break the padlock the padlock will end up in your inventory and a close look will reveal what appears to be a fingerprint.
There is a stiletto stuck in a chair and a close look at it shows that there is dried blood on it and what appears to be a fingerprint. There is also an old-fashioned wood stove with a stovepipe leading up to the roof.
The first thing you need to do is speak to Lucien, the waiter, who is at the bar, so go to the Salon Car. Some time while you are near the table full of food in the Restaurant Car - before or after you search the kitchen - you need to pick up the blank menu cards and the butter knife that are on that table. Go to the Baggage Car and use those spouts that you got from the trees in the woods on the olive oil and vinegar kegs.
Fill one of the glasses that you picked up earlier with olive oil and another with vinegar and go to the Restaurant Car to take them to Klaus in his kitchen the door that is there between the table full of food and the Baggage Car door.
When you give it to him, he will go back to the Baggage Car to get more. This leaves the kitchen empty for you to go in and pick up a few more things that you need. In the Kitchen As you enter the kitchen there is a drawer on your left — open it and take a turkey baster. Go to the refrigerator — open it and take the orange juice. Go over by the stove and take the cake batter that is sitting there. You are done in the kitchen and have everything needed for taking and collecting fingerprints.
Preparing the Fingerprint Powder To prepare your fingerprint powder — put the hammer and the lump of coal into the left side of the Gear Button window and click the Gear Button, then put the coal dust back into the left side and add the turkey baster.
Again click the Gear Button and you have your fingerprint powder in its applicator. Collecting Fingerprints from Items Already Collected There are already articles in your inventory that you can get fingerprints off of, so put each one in the left side of the Gear Button window with the baster and click the Gear Button to apply the powder, then put the objects with the powder on them back on the left with the sellotape to collect the fingerprint. Marceau will comment each time that she has collected a clear print and filed it.
What follows can actually be done in any order, but this was the way that minimized backtracking for me. This is where the cake batter comes in. Pour the batter into the print to make a cast. Unlike plaster that will harden and can be picked up in your hand, you are dealing with frozen cake batter that will melt from body heat and the heat inside the train. Next, go to the front of the train and get the fingerprints of the Engineer and the Fireman.
Ask him all possible questions and take his fingerprints. When you get to Compartment 13, Dr. Constantine will be there. Get his fingerprints — also compare his shoes with the cast. Marceau will insist he return the key to her.
Question him thoroughly and he will tell you that his passport is in his compartment. As the questioning continues though he will eventually confess to being a Private Investigator hired by Ratchett to protect him. He will tell you where to find his real passport in his compartment. Take the passport and a nice family portrait of a man, woman and child from his suitcase. In Compartment 7 — 8 you need to get the fingerprints off the handrail and the vase. Use the key given to you by Michel to unlock the connecting door to the Calais Coach and continue searching and questioning the rest of the suspects.
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