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Orient Express Character Profiles

Map of Europe 1936
1936 Wikipedia
What Happened in 1936
A History of the Orient Express

Schedule (for our purposes)

ArrivalApproximate Travel TimeArrival Time
Strasbourg, France​
4:3600:06 Thursday
Karlsruhe, Germany​
2:1803:54 Thursday
Stuttgart, Germany​
2:1806:12 Thursday
Munich, Germany​
4:3610:18 Thursday
Vienna, Austria​
11:3022:15 Thursday
Budapest, Hungary7:105:25 Friday
Belgrade, Yugoslavia13:0718:32 Friday
Constantinople, Turkey (Istanbul)24:0818:40 Saturday
 
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@Shiva the Cat I've been going by this description of how our characters' sleeping compartments are ordered.
Traveler said:
To the left of Leonard's cabin is an empty one, to the right are Mr. Walsh's cabin, then Estrella's, then Jane's.
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And the dead woman is found in the empty compartment left of Mr Benjamins. So First Class.

On a similar note I have a question myself for clarification. When did the Arthur Henry Murrow meet his end in relation to the departure of The Orient Express from Paris? @Traveler
 
MsBloom said:
@Shiva the Cat I've been going by this description of how our characters' sleeping compartments are ordered.

And the dead woman is found in the empty compartment left of Mr Benjamins. So First Class.

On a similar note I have a question myself for clarification. When did the Arthur Henry Murrow meet his end in relation to the departure of The Orient Express from Paris? @Traveler
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Thank you for the clarification! Perfect location.

All that Leonard knows about the death of Arthur Henry Murrow is that it would have been 3-4 days ago. He overheard coppers at a cafe discussing the event on his way out of London.
 
captain_bond said:
Insofar as they all want Hitler and his thugs to burn in the ninth circle of Hell
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That was not such a general opinion before the full extent of the atrocities committed by the Nazis became known after war had been declared. It might perhaps be a strange idea to us today but back in the 30s the Americans didn't much care about Hitler at all. He was not THEIR problem. There was a silent agreement between the US and the leading nations of Europe that if Europe stayed out of American foreign politics then the US would do the same with European foreign politics which I think date all the way back to President James Monroe more than a century before.

There were many with similar philosophical and political ideas all over Europe, not only in Spain and Italy, but as already stated, the British nobility were not unsympathetic towards the National Socialist Party. There were many here in Sweden who saw him as some sort of saviour. (As much as it pains me to declare it a fact it still remains such that Sweden was the first nation to have a government sanctioned institute for racial biology dating all the way back to the end of WW I.)

The French of course hated his guts but not because of his politics but because they hated Germany in general, always have.

Also keep in mind that the US was not involved in either of the world wars from the start. They entered WW I after a commercial ship had been sunk by a German u-boat and they entered WW II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, some months after war had been declared in Europe and they didn't really get involved in the European war until 1942. Why would they wait that long to get involved if they truly wanted Hitler and his thugs to burn in the ninth circle of Hell?
 
Traveler said:
All that Leonard knows about the death of Arthur Henry Murrow is that it would have been 3-4 days ago. He overheard coppers at a cafe discussing the event on his way out of London.
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Then it would have been in all the major British papers before the Orient Express left Paris. Good to know.
 
Umm ... I must confess that I am now officially confused.
@xavierrol Please correct me if I am mistaken but had we not agreed in pm that Jeudeth would find the courier Walsh was supposed to meet murdered?

MsBloom said:
the idea is that somewhere after Strasbourg a young woman is found dead, quite obviously murdered and hidden away. There is no accounting for her on the passenger list. Everyone who is supposed to be on the train is on the train.

This dead woman is the courier who was supposed to deliver a vital document to Mr Walsh. She has been murdered by an enemy operative who has remained on the train since she was tasked with taking the list to Istanbul so she can start to eliminate the people on the list who are sympathetic to the Allies. Of course this means she has stolen the murdered woman's identity and walk among the passengers undercover.
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And now @Shiva the Cat is playing that very same courier, alive and well? Or has she just revealed her second character as the enemy agent sent to retrieve the list and exchange it for a false one, and in doing so also revealed that same character as the murderer?
 
captain_bond said:
@Shiva the Cat He was speaking to the Gestapo agents that were undoubtedly front-and-center at the crime scene. You can have your little cheeky moment when he gets back to the table.
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My mistake, I was under the assumption he was making the comment under his breath at the table, rather than directly to the faces of men who could have him imprisoned if they wanted to.
 
A question of an entirely different nature. I will wait for Xavier's response before I dig further into my previous question.

Shiva the Cat said:
I found the chapter on finches quite enlightening,
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Is this a reference to A Caribbean Mystery and Jane Marple meeting Ian Fleming at a lecture held by an ornithologist who opens his lecture on guano with the phrase we all know: My name is Bond, James Bond (allegedly a partially true story of how Fleming came up with the name).
 
MsBloom said:
A question of an entirely different nature. I will wait for Xavier's response before I dig further into my previous question.



Is this a reference to A Caribbean Mystery and Jane Marple meeting Ian Fleming at a lecture held by an ornithologist who opens his lecture on guano with the phrase we all know: My name is Bond, James Bond (allegedly a partially true story of how Fleming came up with the name).
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Ssssssh we're pretending that clever reference didn't happen.

Also @captain_bond no guarantees the spectacled woman will be where Walsh left her. If he decided to run off without completing the handoff, that's his mistake. Just FYI.
 
The very last part of this post is what I refer to above:

Orient Express - East of Stuttgart

Name: Jane Marple Location: First Class Dining @Traveler @captain_bond It was perhaps not as safe to speak so freely of the two leaders as it might have been only a few hours ago before they crossed the border but Jane was not too worried. They might perhaps be on german territory but as...
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