Editing Murder on the Orient Express (section)

==Characters==
*[[Hercule Poirot]]: world-famous detective from Belgium.
*Monsieur Bouc: Poirot's Belgian friend and a director of the [[Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits]].
*Samuel Ratchett/Cassetti: An American gangster who kidnapped and murdered three-year-old Daisy Armstrong.
*Dr. Stavros Constantine: a Greek physician, who, after the murder, determines Ratchett's time of death.
*Mrs. Caroline Hubbard: the American actress Linda Arden, who is also revealed to be Daisy Armstrong's maternal grandmother.
*Mary Debenham: An English governess returning from Baghdad and was formerly Daisy Armstrong's governess.
*Colonel John Arbuthnot: Colonel Armstrong's English best friend who is in love with Mary Debenham.
*Princess Natalia Dragomiroff: a [[White émigré|Russian]] [[Russian nobility|princess]] who is ultimately revealed to be Sonia Armstrong's godmother.
*Hector MacQueen: Ratchett's American secretary and translator, whose father was the Armstrongs' lawyer.
*Countess Helena Andrenyi: Sonia Armstrong's sister, notable as the only one of the thirteen suspects who did not participate in the murder.
*Count Rudolph Andrenyi: Countess Andrenyi's Hungarian husband, who took his wife's place as the twelfth murderer.
*Antonio Foscarelli: an Italian-American car salesman who was formerly the Armstrongs' chauffeur and had loved little Daisy.
*Greta Ohlsson: a Swedish missionary who was formerly Daisy Armstrong's nurse.
*Hildegarde Schmidt: Princess Dragomiroff's German maid who was formerly the Armstrongs' cook
*Edward Henry Masterman: Ratchett's English valet, a remote and haughty man, who was Col. Armstrong's [[Batman (military)|batman]] in the war and valet in New York.
*Cyrus Hardman: an American ex-policeman who was in love with Daisy Armstrong's French nursery maid, Susanne, who killed herself after being falsely accused of aiding Cassetti.
*Pierre Michel: the French train conductor and father of Daisy Armstrong's nursery maid, Susanne, who killed herself after being falsely accused of aiding Cassetti.