Murder on the Orient Express
Characters in Murder on the Orient Express
10 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Hercule Poirot
The Belgian detective drawn into investigating a murder aboard a snowbound train.
Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, Mystery of the Blue Train, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder in Three Acts
Supporting characters
M. Bouc
A director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and an old friend of Poirot, who asks him to take the case.
Samuel Edward Ratchett
A secretive, intimidating American businessman who fears for his life and is found stabbed in his compartment.
Mary Debenham
A composed young Englishwoman working as a governess, controlled and guarded under questioning.
Colonel Arbuthnot
A reserved British army officer returning from India, formal and slow to trust outsiders.
Mrs Hubbard
A loud, talkative American widow forever recounting stories of her family.
Also in Hickory Dickory Dock
Princess Dragomiroff
An ancient, imperious Russian aristocrat of formidable presence and exacting manner.
Hector MacQueen
Ratchett's young American secretary and translator, eager and forthcoming with Poirot.
Countess Andrenyi
A beautiful, reticent young Hungarian noblewoman travelling with her diplomat husband.
Hildegarde Schmidt
A stolid German lady's maid attending Princess Dragomiroff aboard the train.