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Agatha Christie – Murder On The Orient Express

This is the other game that stars Hercule Poirot – and it was the last Agatha Christie game that isn’t a hidden object game (HOG). Also, this is the only Agatha Christie game to require a disc for gameplay, if you have the physical copy.

Much like the other two Agatha Christie games (And Then There Were None & Evil Under The Sun), this one also has a playable character that isn’t in the book: Antoinette Marceau; the introduction to her is that she’s the representative from the train company, she’s also a fan of Poirot’s detective work.

The game begins with Antoinette chasing after Poirot in the town bazaar, trying to catch up with him. Along the way, she meets and interacts with most of the passengers.

When the game begins, watch the scene. This is a prologue to the case that started the whole story — details on this will be revealed later in the game.

The first obstacle in Antoinette’s way is Chef Klaus. Choose the cleaver in his left hand and when they move aside, continue forward.

Next see two of the passengers, Cyrus Hardman and Antoinio Foscarelli, discussing tiles: Antoinette has to get them a sample. Walk down and look at the goat by the barrels. Continue right, look at the stand and take a bowl. Return to Foscarelli & Hardman and use the bowl on them. Take the grains from the cart behind where Foscarelli was standing and go back to the goat. Use the grains on the goat and take the parasol.

Continue forward past Foscarelli & Hardman, and see two older women: Hildegarde Schmidt & Princess Dragomirnoff. Talk to them and give them the parasol. Continue forward.

See a homely woman: Greta Ohlsson. She her to the train.

See two men right outside of the station: Mr. Ratchett and Hector MacQueen. Select I don’t see what business that is of yours then must I summon the police to get Ratchett to let you past.

Enter the train station, walk left three times and see a couple: Colonel Arbuthnot and Mary Debenham. Listen to them talk and follow the path to the ticket attendant. Talk to him to give him your ticket. Walk forward to the train. Talk to Poirot & Michel.

Open inventory and select documents. Select Maps then Train Plan. Talk to Michel again and select Give Monsieur my room. I will be quite comfortable in the salon car.

Part 1 – The Facts
Talk all topics with Poirot.

The train stops outside the Belgrade station. Walk up along the train, going towards the caboose, see a figure dash into the train and continue up. Go into the station and walk past Arbuthnot and MacQueen and continue forward. Walk down and see Michel talking to the engineer. Talk to them. Back up and look at the boxes on the cart and ask Michel to translate.

Go back to the boxes with Michel in tow. Find Klaus’ bacon.

Back up and return to the train, talk to MacQueen & Arbuthnot as you pas.

After the exchange with Greta, go to the salon car and check the bar. Open the drawer and take the tape and napkins. Above the drawer take the left half of the glasses and the tongs.

Return to the Calais coach, and with a glass listen to all doors except Antoinette’s or Poirot’s.

Talk to Michel after he clears his throat. When he leaves, follow him with the shadow icon. Click in the room and when he asks if she was following him, select I saw the baggage car door was unlocked, and I thought I should check.

Return to your room, but when you pass the long table in the dining car, search it and take the spirit lamp.

Once in your room, cross the room and Greta enters. Talk to her.

After the cutscenes, check the door through the keyhole twice.

A thump awakens Antoinette, search the halllway. Talk to Michel then go back to bed.

Watch the cutscene in the dining car.

In Poirot’s room, talk to him and Dr. Constantine fully.

In Ratchett’s room, pick up the handkercheif off of the floor. Search the nightstand and take the cigar, false teeth, glass, matches and statue. Back up and look at the body. Check the pillow; take the gun. Take the watch from Ratchett’s shirt pocket. Look through his suitcase and take the bottle of sleeping draught. Talk to Constantine. Go to the other side of the room and check the hat and coat. Take the pipecleaner off of the floor under the hat. Return to Constantine and talk to him fully. In the inventory, check all items. Return to Poirot’s room and talk to him fully.

Return to Constantine, look out the window and talk to him fully.

Check all womens rooms for metal hatframes –the ones you want are Greta’s and Princess Dragomirnoff’s. Return to Poirot and take the curling tongs off of his nightstand.

On the table, add the spirit lamp and light it. In the inventory, combine the curling tongs and the burnt paper by clicking each on the gear icon, then when they’re both on the gear screen click the gear again. On the table add one hatframe, the tonged paper and the other hatframe.

Part Two: The Evidence
Talk to Michel at his post.

Go to the baggage car and unlock it. Enter the room and look at the clipboard hanging on the wall.

Go to Ratchett’s room and see Hardman outside the window. Follow him with the shadow icon.

Go back outside and walk to the front of the train. Talk to the engineer. Give him Ratchett’s false teeth. Talk to him again and take a piece of coal.

Return to the train via Ratchett’s window. Talk to Michel for a key to the Athens-Paris coach and then unlock the door with that new key. Search all rooms.

In Matteo’s room, take the book and his passport.

In room (vacant) take the broken snowshoes hidden under the bed.

In Constantine’s room, search his coat and suitcase and get a business card from the suitcase. Study it in the inventory. Take his passport from the nightstand.

Room 12 is vacant, but there’s a torn note on the floor. Puzzle it together.

You can’t search Michel’s room yet, it’s locked.

In the engineer’s room, take his passport from the nightstand.

Next is Klaus’s room, search his suitcase to get his passport.
The next two rooms are vacant and there’s nothing to do in them so go to the fireman’s room. Take his gloves off of the bed and his passport from the nightstand.

Return to Vacant 5-6 and enter the bathroom. Pan down to the cabinet below the sink, open it and take the pliers.

Go to Lucien’s room 1-2 and take his passport.

Go to the calais coach and enter Hardman’s room. Searh his suitcase and get a blackjack.

Return to the engineer and trade him the blackjack for his hammer.

Return to the train like before and go to the baggage car. Go to the crate labeled two pairs and use the hammer to open it and take the bound snowshoes.

In the inventory, use the bound snowshoes and pliers on the gear to unbind the snowshoes.

Return to Ratchett’s room and leave out the window.

Wall to the bottom left corner of the screen, then to the caboose of the train (the outside of the baggage car). Walk down then up-right. Use the snowshoes on Antoinette and walk right. Use the gun on the wolf to scare it and continue right. Take the bore out of the tree at the left.

Note: I didn’t get the screenshot done until after I had clicked on it, but I circled where it had been

Return right, go left then at the Y junction, take the left-most fork. Go up and take three lefts. There’s the other bore in a tree, take it.

Walk right then the right path that goes up, then right-up under the branch. Scare this wolf too and go up.

At the T junction, go up and see a disruption in the snow on the mountain, click there to get the knife.

Go right to the gut, Take a bar from the window with the hammer and use it on the lock to pry it off of the door

Inside the hut, take the uniform off of the bed and search it in the inventory. Walk down and take the knife out of the chair. With pliers, take a length of pipe from the stove. Leave the hut and use the snowshoes on Antoinette. Walk down – down – left – down – right – right – down – down to the train. Walk up three screens to where the train is steaming at. Look at the steam and use the pipe on the gap the steam is coming from.

Go to the baggage car and down to the clipboard. Look at the condiment casks, use the bores and glasses on them to get vinegar and oil for Chef Klaus.

go to the kitchen and talk to Klaus twice.

After he leaves, enter the kitchen and open the refrigerator. Take the pitcher of orange juice. Take the cleaver from the cutting board and open the drawer below the loaves of bread and take the turkey baster. Go to the other side of the room and take the bowl of cake batter. Leave the kitchen.

Look at the big table in the dining car. Take the notecards and butter knife.

Continue to the salon car and talk to Mary.

Continue forward and talk to Count and Countess.

Continue to the bar and talk to Lucien. Take the bucket of ice and the glass bowl.

Continue forward and talk to Foscarelli.

In the Calais coach, check Foscarelli & Masterman’s room. Talk to Masterman and check both suitcases.

Continue next door to MacQueen’s room. Check the briefcase. Cross the room and talk to MacQueen.

The next room belongs to Mary & Schmidt. Take Mary’s passport from the nightstand and talk to Schmidt. Search both suitcases.

Next is the room Antoinette shares with Greta. Talk to Greta and search her suitcase (the one on the left). Take the book from under the ashtray.

Skip the next two rooms (Poirot’s & Ratchett’s).

Enter Mrs. Hubbard’s room. Take the gold button off of the floor. Search her suitcase. On the other side of the room, talk to her fully.

In the inventory, combine the hammer and coal then the coal power & turkeybaster to get fingerprint powder (for items).Dust the connecting door between Hubbard & Ratchett’s rooms and use the tape to collect fingerprint.

Next is Countess’ room. Search her suitcase and click the false label on the suitcase.

Continue next door to Count’s room. Search his suitcase.

Next is Dragomirnoff’s room. Search her suitcase and open the puzzlebox.
Short side-top ~ right
Short side-bottom ~ left
Front ~ up
Short side-top ~ left
Short side-bottom ~ right
Front ~ up
Short side-top ~ left
Short side-bottom ~ right
Short side top and bottom ~ down
Top ~ left

Cross the room and talk to Dragomirnoff and take the bracelet and passport.

Go next door and talk to Arbuthnot and take his passport. After he leaves, search his suitcase.

Search Hardman’s room. Take his passport & typewriter ribbon.

Go to Ratchett’s room and check the window. Take print off of the base. Go outside and look at footprints. Pour cake batter in the footprint. Use the tongs on the battered print and combine the tonged print with the bowl of ice. Return inside and go to Foscarelli & Masterman’s room. Compare the shoeprint to the shoes in their shoe cupboard.
Do this for all men’s shoes

Go to the Salon car and talk to everyone again and take their prints with the typewriter ribbon.

Don’t forget to talk to Michel in passing, and go to the Athens-Paris coach.

Go to Michel’s room and see Hardman searching it. Talk to him fully. Search Michel’s suitcase, then go to Hardman’s room in the Calais coach and click on his nightstand and take everything (you will have TWO passports for him in the passports, if you don’t double-check the underside of his nightstand).

Return to the Athens-Paris coach and to Constantine’s room and take his fingerprints.

Talk to Matteo at his post and fingerprint him.

Go to the baggage car and look at the crate you got the snowshoes from earlier. Dust it for fingerprints.

Walk down and fingerprint Klaus and walk up to look at the locked door. Dust it for fingerprints and use the key you got from Hardman in Michel’s room on the door to unlock it.

Enter the security room and look at the big crate to the right. Use the bar from the hut’s window to open it and dust the books. Take the uniform. Look at the latch and dust it for fingerprints.

Cross the room to the safe. The keys to it’s combination are the verse written in Ratchett’s hat and Greta’s bible…but the way I remember it is how evil of a man Ratchett was — the combination is 666. After Antoinette comments about hearing a click, turn the gold knob, take the letter.

Go to the Athens-Paris coach and compare the shoes.

Go to Ratchett’s room and leave out the window. Walk up front and talk to the fireman (where you fixed the steampipe) and fingerprint him. Continue to the engineer and fingerprint him too.

Go to Poirot’s room and talk to him fully.

In the inventory, search all items. Fingerprint Ratchett’s glass and the broken padlock from the hut.

Go to the baggage car and look at the open crate next to the window and dust it for fingerprints.

Go to the Athens-Paris coach to room 7-8. Walk to the window and dust the handlebar to the left for fingerprints and then dust the vase next to the window for fingerprints.

In the inventory, dust the broken snowshoes and stiletto for fingerprints.

Click on the fingerprint icon and compare fingerprints:
MacQueen ~ Crate Latch
Michel ~ Security Room Door
Greta ~ Door Knob
Arbuthnot ~ Handle
Arbuthnot ~ Broken Snowshoes
Mary ~ Vase
Matteo ~ Padlock
Masterman ~ Thick Tumbler
Foscarelli ~ Snowshoes Crate
Foscarelli ~ Empty Crate
Foscarelli ~ Ratchett’s Window
Note: These two have NO match:
Book
Stiletto

Return to Poirot’s room and talk fully.

Part Three: Hercule Poirot Sits Back & Thinks
Jump to the baggage car then walk to the dining car and talk to Greta.

Walk down and talk to Princess & Schmidt.

Walk up and talk to Count, Countess, Masterman and Constantine.

Continue to the salon car and talk to Hardman, Hubbard, Foscarelli, Arbuthnot & MacQueen.

Return to Antoinette & Greta’s room and check Antoinette’s suitcase (the one on the right, by the window).

Go to Poirot’s room and talk to him fully. Now you can check his suitcase, take the letter.

Go to the Athens-Paris coach room 16. In the inventory, combine the hammer and Dragomirnoff’s copper bracelet, combine the hammer with the butter knife. Combine the copper wire & and the cleaver. On the table, place the empty bowl, to it add the juice, statue, bracelet. In the inventory, combine the bent butter knife, nails and hammer to get makeshift telegraph key. Place this on the table and add the copper wire.

Go outside and Antoinette is abducted! Watch the scene and when gameplay resumes, she’s in the hut.

Look under the bed and take the parasol. Back up to the window, use the parasol on the broken padlock. Leave through the door, take the padlock and all items from the box (the only thing missing is the key to the security room). Put the snowshoes on and return to the train.

Return to Athens-Paris coach room 16 and contact Barnaby.

Go to the salon car and talk to Mary fully.

Return to Athens-Paris coach room 16 and turn the radio back on — Barnaby as information.

Go to the dining car and talk to Countess & Constantine fully.

Go to Poirot’s room and talk to him fully.

The game cutscenes to Michel and Constantine carrying Poirot to the Salon car, where all characters now are.

In the inquisition select:

  • Threatening Letter
  • The detective is Cyrus Hardman, posing as a salesman of typewriting ribbons.
  • Matteo, the Athens-Paris attendant and Dr. Constantine
  • Through the door left unbolted by Monsieur MacQueen
  • Attendant’s uniform
  • Masterman confirmed the dosage of the sleeping draught
  • Stiletto
  • Torn Letter
  • The killer hid in an empty room in the Athens-Paris coach
  • 1:15am
  • In America
  • Countess Andrenyi
  • Colonel Arbuthnot
  • Mary Debenham
  • Princess Dragomirnoff
  • Antonio Foscarelli
  • Hector MacQueen
  • Edward Masterman
  • Greta Ohlsson
  • Hidegarde Schmidt
  • All of these clues agree with the first solution
  • When he said the snow was bright
  • Monsieur Ferrier
  • Steak knife
  • Pipe cleaner
  • Handkerchief
  • Broken Padlock
  • Scarlet kimono
  • The Engineer
  • The pile of books

Watch the ending