Murder on the Orient Express Walkthrough

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Agatha Christie:
Murder on the
Orient Express

Developer:	AWE Games
Publisher:	The Adventure Company
Platform:	PC
Genre:	Adventure
Release Date:	November 2006
Article Posted:	March 2007
System Requirements

Walkthrough by Southern Belle

When you move your cursor to the top of the screen, you will find the tool bar. Access your inventory at the left end and the menu at the right end. There is a map of the train in between. If a car is "lit", you may "jump" to that car by clicking on it. Otherwise, you will have to walk. Each item you pick up should be looked at in inventory with your magnifying glass. Right clicking on the mouse will give you your inventory. When you are walking, you may double click on the left button and "zip" through the screen.

And now, Adventure Lantern and Southern Belle invite you to climb aboard a luxurious train and play the key role in Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery "Murder on the Orient Express".

	Click on Poirot to follow him.
	Talk with Chef Klaus on the right.
	Select the cleaver in his left hand.
	Go forward.
	Click on Poirot.
	Click on the goat on the right.
	Click on Poirot.
	Talk with the two men blocking the path.
	Go back twice and take the large bowl next to the man in the brown coat.
	Return to the two men and give them the bowl.
	Take the grain from the cart on the left.
	Go further down the path.
	Talk with the two women blocking the path.
	Go back to the goat and give him the grain.
	Take the parasol.
	Return to the two women and give them the parasol.
	Go forward and talk with the woman on the right. Exhaust all dialogue.
	Go right.
	Talk with the two men on the left. Exhaust all dialogue.
	Enter the train station and go left.
	Go left again.
	Continue left, following Poirot.
	Go up to the ticket taker and talk with him.
	Go through the door behind the attendant and continue left. Catch up with Poirot.
	Talk with the attendant and Poirot until it is decided that you will share a cabin with Miss Ohlsson.
	After the cut scene, talk with Poirot. Exhaust all conversation.
	After the cut scene, go left.
	Go left again and talk with the two men by the fountain.
	Go right twice. After the cut scene, click on the gate in the fence.
	Continue right and talk with the men by the train. Exhaust all conversation.
	Move away from the men and go left.
	Look at the boxes on the cart.
	Go back to the men and talk with Michel. Exhaust all conversation.
	Return to the cart and click on the box label on the right.
	After the cut scene, go up to the top of the screen and enter the Salon Car.
	Go forward into the Salon Car and go behind the bar. Take the ice tongs and all the water glasses you can pick up. Open the drawer and take the napkins and the tape.
	Move your cursor to the top of the screen and a train appears with two cars highlighted. Click on the Calais Coach and "jump" there. You can walk if you would prefer.
	Click on your scrapbook. Then click on Maps and then on Calais Manifest.
	Using a glass from your inventory, click on the doors in the Calais Coach. Skip your room.
	When Michel catches you eavesdropping, click on the "shadow" icon and follow him to the baggage car. Leave the baggage car and go back to your room in the Calais Coach. Talk with Greta. After the cut scene, exhaust all conversation with Greta.
	Move toward your door and click on it to peek out the keyhole. After the cut scene, peek again.
	After you hear a noise, peek again.
	When you see the woman in the red kimono, go to the Salon car and find it locked.
	Go talk with Michel. Exhaust all conversation. Talk with him again.
	Return to your room.
	After the cut scene, talk with Poirot. Exhaust all conversation. You must make a choice about whether you want to conduct your own investigation or accept help from Poirot. If you let him help you, he will give you hints.
	Click on the handkerchief on the floor, click on the blanket. Click on the pocket on the left side of the pajamas and take the watch. Click on the pillow and take the gun. Move back from the body. Click on the table under the window and take the teeth, the glass, the statue, the cigar stub, the flat match, the round match and the scrap of burnt paper.
	Back away from the table and look at the suitcase on the rack above your head. Take the sleeping draught.
	Look out the window.
	Back away from the window and move toward the door. Check the coat and take the matches.
	Take the pipe cleaner on the floor on the right and the hat on the right hand side of the door.
	Turn around and talk with the doctor. Talk with him again. Continue the conversation until you ask him to see that the crime scene is undisturbed.
	Check each item in your inventory with the magnifying glass or you will be unable to proceed.
	After the cut scene, exhaust all conversation with Poirot.
	Go to the Restaurant car by jumping or walking and take the spirit lamp from the buffet table.
	Go back to the Calais Coach and enter room 5-6.
	Take the box from Schmidt's suitcase and check it with the magnifying glass.
	Open Debenham's suitcase and take the handkerchief with CMH embroidered on it.
	Go to room 7-8, click on the hatbox on the shelf on the left and take the wire frame.
	Go to room 11 and take the letter from the suitcase and the button from the floor left of the connecting door.
	Go to room 14 and take the wire frame from the hatbox on the right.
	Open the suitcase and take the puzzle box. Open the puzzle box by sliding the short top panel right, bottom short panel left, long side panel up, short top panel left back to the starting position, short bottom right back to the starting position, long side panel up, short top panel left, short bottom panel right, bottom short panel down, top panel left. Take the locket.
	Click on the connecting door and open the suitcase on the rack. Take the pipe cleaners that are under the clothes.
	Go to room 16 and take the leather sap from the suitcase. Click on the case on the seat and take the typewriter ribbon on the lower left
	Go to room 9 and take the curling tongs from the table beside Poirot. Talk with him. Exhaust all conversation.
	From your inventory, take a hat frame and place it on the table. Pick up the curling tongs in your inventory and click on the gears. Place the tongs in a box. Pick up the piece of paper in your inventory and click on the gears. Place the piece of paper in a box. Click on the gears in the center and combine the two items. Click on the X at the top right of the curling tongs and paper and put the combined items into your inventory. Take the curling tongs with paper from your inventory and place it on the hat frame. Put the other hat frame over the paper. Put the spirit lamp on the table and light it.

	Go to room 10 and look out the window. Follow Hardman by clicking on the shadow icon.
	Talk with Matteo.
	Move down and enter room 16. Look at the radio.
	Go to room 15 and take the Morse book from the bench. Take the passport from the table.
	Enter room 14 and take the snowshoes from under the bed.
	Move to room 13 and check the coat on the wall. Take the passport from the table. Open the suitcase on the rack and take the announcement.

	Enter room 12 and take the torn letter from the floor. Put the pieces together. Click and drag a piece to place it in the box. Use the arrows at the bottom of the box to rotate the pieces.
	Enter room 10 and take the passport from the table.
	Go to room 9 and take the passport from the suitcase.
	Move to room 7-8 and look at the handle next to the bathroom and the flower vase.
	Enter the bathroom and take the pliers out of the cabinet below the sink.
	Go to room 3-4 and the the gloves from the bench and the passport from the table.
	Exit this room and go back to Matteo. Use this door to exit the car.
	Go to the cab of the train and talk with the engineer. Exhaust all conversation and give him the teeth.
	Click on the hammer. Give Tayyip the leather sap.
	Take the hammer and a lump of coal.
	Exit the cab and look under the coal tender to see where the steam is escaping.
	Go to the open window in the Calais coach and enter the train.
	Talk with Michel. Exhaust all conversation.
	Go to the Restaurant car. Go all the way through it to the Baggage car and open the door.
	Go to the middle of the car and look at the crate with the label Two Pairs on it. Look closely at the nails in the lid. Use the hammer to remove the nails. Open the lid and take the snowshoes.
	Pick up the bound snowshoes in your inventory and click on the gears. Place the snowshoes in the right hand box and click on the center gears. Click on the X in the snowshoe box and the wire box and place them in inventory.
	Back away from the box and move right.
	Look at the clipboard on the left and the kegs on the right.
	Back away from the kegs and go further down the passageway. Check the security door.
	Go back to the Calais coach and enter room 10. Exit the train through the open window and go left.
	When you get to the end of the train, go right.
	Use the snowshoes on Antoinette when you get to the large rock.
	Go right and use the gun to frighten the wolf.
	Continue right and take the spout off the tree on the left.
	Turn around and go back to the large rock.
	Go left.
	Take the path at the bottom of the screen.
	Turn left and take the spout from the tree.
	Leave this scene and go to the fork. Continue on the upper path to the right.
	Do not turn here. Continue to the right.
	Use the gun again to scare the wolf.
	Bear left and go up the snow bank.
	Continue straight ahead.
	Click on the hole in the snow near the bottom of the screen and pick up a steak knife. Look at it in inventory.
	After the cut scene, go right.
	Go to the hut and look closely at the bars on the window.
	Use the hammer to take an iron bar.
	Use the iron bar on the padlock.
	Enter the hut and pick up the attendant's uniform. Look at it in inventory and get a second pass key.
	Go down and pick up the stiletto from the chair. Look at it in inventory.
	Use the pliers to take a piece of the stove pipe.
	Exit the hut and use the snowshoes on Antoinette.
	Go down twice and you will be back at the cliff.
	Go down right.
	Go left, down and right twice.
	Go down left and go back to the train.
	Move forward to the coal tender.
	Look under the coal tender and use the stove pipe on the broken pipe.
	After the cut scene, go to the Restaurant car and go to the kitchen. Click on the door.
	Go to the baggage car.
	Go to the kegs and use the spouts on the vinegar and oil. Use a glass from your inventory to collect the vinegar and oil.
	Return to the kitchen and give the vinegar and oil to the chef.
	Once Klaus leaves, enter the kitchen.
	Take the turkey baster from the drawer under the bread. Take the orange juice from the refrigerator. Take the cleaver from the chopping block and take the batter from the stove.
	Exit the kitchen and go to the buffet table. Take the blank menu cards and the butter knife.
	Go to the baggage car and take Klaus' fingerprints. Fingerprints will be taken automatically if you are carrying blank menu cards, a typewriter ribbon and paper napkins.
	Go to the Salon car. Question anyone you can find. Exhaust all conversation. Get their passports. Take their fingerprints.
	When you talk with the bartender, take the ice bucket. Back away and take the punch bowl from the bar.
	Move to the right and talk with Foscarelli.
	Go to the Calais Coach and enter room 1-2 and talk with Masterman. Open the suitcase on the rack and take Love's Captive book.
	Open Foscarell's suitdcase and take the chauffeur's license.
	Go to room 3-4 and talk with MacQueen. Exhaust all conversation.
	Take the letters from the briefcase to the left of the door.
	Go to room 5-6 and take the passport from the table.
	Talk with Schmidt.
	Go to room 7-8.
	Talk with Greta and take the bible from the table.
	Open the suitcase in the rack and take the postcard. Look at it in inventory.
	Go to room 11 and talk with Mrs. Hubbard.
	Go to room 12 and check the label of the suitcase for the hidden initials under it.
	Enter room 13 and search the suitcase. Nothing.
	Move on to room 14 and take the passport and copper bracelet. Exhaust all conversation with the Princess.
	Go to room 15 and talk to Col. Arbuthnot.
	Go to room 16 and take the passport from the table.
	Exit the room and talk with Michel.
	Use the Athens-Paris coach key to enter that car.
	Enter room 1-2 and take the passport on the table.
	Go to room 11. After the cut scene, talk with Hardman.
	When the conversation is over, open the suitcase on the rack and take the passport and photograph.
	Go to room 13 and talk with Constantine.
	Exit the room 13 and talk with Matteo.
	Exit the train and go forward to talk with the Fireman.
	Enter the cab and talk with the Engineer.
	Exit the cab and go to the Calais coach.
	Go to room 16 and look under the table to get Hardman's real passport, credentials and a letter.
	Go to Poirot's room in the Calais coach and talk with him.
	Go to the Baggage car and all the way to the security door.
	Use the small key taken from Hardman to open the security door.
	Use the magnifying glass to look at Ratchett's hat and Greta's bible.
	Go to the safe in the corner. The combination is 666. Place the cursor to the left of the dial and click until the 6 is under the arrow. Place the cursor to the right and do the same. Place the cursor once more on the left and click until the 6 is under the arrow again. Turn the handle and take the confession.
	Back away from the safe and go to the crate. Use the iron bar to open the crate. Take the uniform and look at the books at the right side.
	Pick up the lump of coal in your inventory and click on the gears. Place the lump of coal in the top box. Pick up the hammer in your inventory and place it in the next box. Click on the center gears and get coal dust.
	Put the coal dust in the top box and the turkey baster in the second box. Click on the center gears and fill the turkey baster with coal dust.
	Look closely at the latch on the crate. Use the baster on the latch. Use the tape on the latch and lift a fingerprint.
	Look closely at the books inside the crate and use the baster and the tape again to lift another print.
	Exit the security room and get fingerprints from the handle on the security room door.
	Go further into the baggage car and look at the crate from which you removed the nails. Lift a fingerprint.
	Look at the open crate on top of the crate with green items in it. Lift a fingerprint.
	Go to the Calais coach and enter room 10.
	Get a close up view of the windowsill and lift a fingerprint.
	Exit room 10 and enter room 11.
	Look closely at the doorknob of the connecting room and lift a print.
	Go to the Athens-Paris coach and enter room 7-8.
	Look at the bars on the right side of the connecting door. Lift a print.
	Move away from the bars and look closely at the vase on the table. Lift a print.
	Pick up the turkey baster from your inventory. Click on the gears and place it in the top box. Pick up the snowshoes from your inventory and click on the gears. Place the snowshoes in the second box. Click on the center gears. Pick up the snowshoes from the right hand box and place them in the top box. Pick up the tape in your inventory and place it in the second box. Click on the center gears and lift a print. Repeat these steps for the thick tumbler, stiletto and broken padlock.
	In your inventory, click on the fingerprint icon. The suspects' prints are in the top row. The prints lifted from items are in the bottom row. Scroll through the suspects and prints until you have matched as many suspects to items as you can.
	MacQueen matches the latch on Rachette's crate.
	Michel matches the security room handle.
	Foscarelli matches the small crate.
	Foscarelli matches the empty crate.
	Foscarelli matches the windowsill.
	Greta matches the doorknob.
	Arbuthnot matches the handle.
	Debenham matches the flower vase.
	Matteo matches the padlock.
	Masterman matches the tumbler.
	Arbuthnot matches the snowshoes.
	Exit the train and go to the footprints under Ratchett's window.
	Get a close up view of the footprint. Pick up the batter from your inventory and use it on the footprint. Use the ice tongs to pick up the frozen batter. Combine the ice bucket and the frozen batter in inventory.
	Go back inside the train. While you are in the Calais coach, go to room 1-2 and use the ice bucket with footprint on the shoes on the top shelf of the closet next to the door. Check the shoes on the bottom shelf as well. Check all the men's shoes in the Calais coach. They are in rooms 3-4, 13, 15 and 16.
	Go to the Athens-Paris coach and check the closets in rooms 1-2, 3-4, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 15.
	Go to the Calais coach and enter Poirot's room.
	After the cut scene, go to the Salon car.
	Talk with MacQueen and Arbuthnot at the first table.
	Talk with Foscarelli, Hubbard , Hardman and Debenham.
	Go to the Restaurant car.
	Talk with Dr Constantine, the Count and Countess, Masterman, Schmidt, the Princess, Greta, Lucien and Klaus.
	Go to the Calais coach and enter your room. Look in your suitcase.
	Exit your room and see that Michel is missing. Check the bathroom door.
	Go to the Athens-Paris coach and see that Matteo is missing. Enter room 16 and look out the window.
	Exit the train.
	After the cut scene is over, take the parasol from under the bed. Open the window and use the parasol on the padlock.
	Exit the hut and check the box on the right in the snow. Take the padlock by the door.
	Use the snowshoes on Antoinette and go back to the train. Move down three times the go left down, right, right and left twice.
	Go to the Calais coach and enter Poirot's room. Talk with Poirot. Take the letter from his suitcase.
	Go to the Athens-Paris coach and enter room 16.
	Combine the butter knife with the pliers.
	Combine the bent butter knife with the nails and the hammer.
	Look at the table. Take the makeshift telegraph key and place in on the table.
	Combine the copper wire with the pliers.
	Use the pieces of copper wire on the telegraph key.
	Put the punch bowl on the table. Use the orange juice on the punch bowl. Put the statue in the bowl. Combine the copper bracelet with the pliers. Use the bent copper bracelet on the bowl.
	Click on the telegraph key. After the cut scene, exhaust all conversation with Barnaby.
	Turn off the radio.
	Turn the radio on and click on the telegraph key. Get the answers to your questions.
	Turn the radio off and then back on. Click on the telegraph key.
	Turn the radio off.
	Go to the salon car and talk with Debenham at the back table.
	Go to the Restaurant car and talk with the doctor and the Countess.
	Make absolutely sure you have examined the following items: pocket watch; both of the attendant's uniforms; gun; cigar stub; Love's Captive book; flat match; chauffeur license; round match; bible; thick tumbler; postcard; sleeping draught; button; hat; family photo; handkerchief; Hardman's credentials; dainty handkerchief; stiletto; pipe cleaner; scarlet kimono; packet of pipe cleaners; parasol; small latched box; steak knife; locket and the announcement.
	Go to the Calais car and enter Poirot's room.
	After the cut scene, Poirot will reveal solutions. You will be asked to answer questions.
	Answer in the following order for the first solution.
	Threatening letter
	Cyrus Hardman
	Matteo and Dr. Constantine
	Through the door left unbolted by MacQueen
	Attendant's uniform
	Masterman confirmed the dosage of the sleeping draught
	Stiletto
	Torn letter
	Empty room in the Athens-Paris coach
	Answer in the following order for the second solution.
	After 1:15 AM
	In America
	Do not select Count Andrenyi, Cyrus Hardman, Mrs. Hubbard or Pierre Michel. Finally, select "None of the Above".
	Colonel Arbuthnot
	All of these clues agree with the first solution
	When he said the snow was bright
	Ferrier
	Steak knife
	Pipe cleaner
	Handkerchief
	Broken padlock
	Scarlet kimono
	Answer in the following order for the third solution.
	The Engineer
	Pile of books
	Click on all three selections one at a time for the solution.

PC System Requirements:

Windows 2000/XP

Pentium 3 or Equivalent 1.4 GHz

256 MB RAM (512 recommended)

64 MB DirectX 9 Compatible Video Card

16 bit DirectX Compatible Sound Card

16x CD-ROM Drive

Hard Drive space of 1.5 GB